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The 16 page Winter BCD Newsletter as usual included a collection of interesting articles, some accompanied by colour photos, on top of the usual notes from our chairman and editor and summaries of the last quarterly meeting in Harborne. Our

September saw us meeting at a rather special location, Harborne, just 500 yards from where, having started as a stationers in the 19th century, Chad Valley started producing toys, games and puzzles in the early 1900’s and continued successfully for

20 page issue 129 featured a full colour front page of Chad Valley’s “Yachting”, brought along to the June meeting by one of the members for the Natural Beauty Show and Tell. The magazine’s colour pages contained many more images

This first meeting to be held at Bourton-on-the-Water, hosted by Emma Jenkinson was a great success.  Almost 40 members gathered in a spacious hall in the picturesque village location on a fine day, to enjoy both wooden and cardboard jigsaw

Following on from the March AGM/Spring meeting, the May issue of the BCD magazine contained quite a lot of content focused on the subject of jigsaw puzzle boxes. As well as the usual write-ups of the meeting in general and

Despite the wintry snow almost 30 people, including a couple all the way from Boston, MA, managed to find their way to the Spring/AGM meeting at Hemel Hempstead where they enjoyed the day in a warm, pleasant hall with good

Once again, the Spring BCD magazine issue provided a thorough overview of the recent quarterly meeting (see previous post) as well as a nice variety of other interesting articles.   Nicki Barker asked the question “Colour-Line Cutting – When did it

Over 30 members turned out on a cold bright day in November for the Winter meeting, joining friends, old and new, for a great day’s puzzling in Ullesthorpe Village Hall, near Lutterworth in Leicestershire. The meeting was hosted by Michael

As well as the usual articles summarising the previous quarterly meeting and detailing the show and tell session that always form an integral part of our meetings, Issue 126 contained several pages of interesting articles including Part 7 of chairman