Our History
Haddington Camera Club was founded in 1952The Founding Members
Founder Members - photo by Dave Smith
According to long-standing club member Jack Tully-Jackson, the people shown are:
Back row, L to R: Duncan Stewart, John Cran (Manager, Boots), Sandy Clyne, Frank Tindal (Planning Officer), Matthew Carlaw MBE (Burgh Chamberlain).
Front row, L to R: Harvey Gardener (Chemist), George Angus, Adam Brown (East Linton), David Smith.
Market Street Premises
The club rooms in Market Street opened 7th October 1958. (L to R) Alistair Angus, Eddie Reynolds, Eric Groome, Jimmy Buglass.
Early Portrait Night
A portrait session in 18 Market Street 9th January 1959.
(L to R) Standing: Jimmy Buglass,
John Cran, Alistair Angus,
William Hepburn, Harvey Gardiner.
Kneeling: George Johnson and James Dow.
Model: Elisabeth Anderton.
We had to vacate our dedicated premises in Market Street so the decision to move to Poldrate was taken at the AGM of the club on 27th March 1979, and we have been there ever since.
In March 2020 the club had a break with tradition and circumstances insisted that the weekly meetings moved from Poldrate to a virtual arrangement using technology. We continued the meetings through the remainder of the 2019-2020 season, and started the 2020-2021 season with the same varied mixture of presentations, competitions, guest speakers, good chat, demonstrations, etc, as we've always enjoyed in the top room of Poldrate.
Above a screen capture of a meeting in January 2021