Queen's Park Camera Club

http://www.qpcc.co.uk/  ESTABLISHED: 1945

On 30 August 1945, some three months after VE (Victory in Europe) day and as servicemen started their return to civilian life, a small group of friends with a shared interest in photography and camera equipment met up in Queen’s Park Secondary School in Glasgow’s south side and agreed to form a club with a view to arranging some lectures and practical demonstrations on how to use a camera to best advantage. So it was then that Queen’s Park Camera Club came into being. Following this initial meeting, the club acquired 20 members within the first few weeks, charging each a £1 annual subscription, at that time a significant proportion of an average weekly wage. Such, however, was the level of interest in the use of the new range of cameras then coming on to the market, that the new club immediately proved popular, attracting 70 members (62 male and 8 female) by April 1946.