HISTORY OF THE CLUB

The Club was founded in 1936 and was known as Kirkcaldy and District Philatelic Society, it held its first meetings in the Rio Alto Tearooms on the High Street in Kirkcaldy. Mr Ian Cripps joined the club in 1936 and Ian still comes along to the meetings regularly, a founder member now for 64 years, congratulations Ian. It has always been a club attended by a small but keen number of members. In 1954 it was decided to move to new, larger and more private premises in the YWCA Esplanade Kirkcaldy, where we stayed quite happily until 1997 when due to the onset of higher Hall Rentals, Noisy Neighbours and poor lighting we had to regretfully look for other premises, this decision was taken after a few meetings, it was a wrench after being at the YWCA for 43 years. We found premises run by Fife Council at St Clair Street where we settled in nicely, it has facilities for the disabled, a very important matter indeed, as the majority of our members are nearing the senior citizen age group. We decided to change the name to be a bit more modern to KIRKCALDY STAMP and POSTCARD CLUB.

Sadly, the Council went back on their word and changed our rent very quickly after getting us into the premises, we could not really afford the rise, we thought we could survive though, but they started altering the times that we agreed with them. So regretably we had no option than to move, we managed to find a nice place in one of the older streets in the town belonging to the oldest Church in Kirkcaldy.The Downie Lounge, Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy. We enjoyed our stay there for one year, the lighting and space was not really adequate but at least it gave us time to look for a more suitable home.To date we have just finished our first year in the Fife Volunteer Bureau, 10 St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy, (opposite The Adam Smith Theatre) where Parking is available at the rear of the building. At the Annual General Meeting in April 2000, everyone agreed the move was really great.

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