Camera Club Days Out

Group Days Out

We are organising various days out for our members to get out with their cameras and photograph some interesting subjects and locations.   If you have any interesting places you would like to visit then let us know and we can arrange something. 

Here are a our recent visits.

Camera Club outing Lichfield Thursday 9th January 2025 

 About a dozen members were welcomed with a hot drink at Sandfields Pumping Station in Lichfield. Their Chairperson Katy was very helpful and informative about the history of the pumping station plus ongoing and future plans for its restoration.
 
 Our group were soon getting out their tripods, discussing camera settings with each other and trying to get to grips with low lighting architectural photography.
 
 After a quick lunch at Wetherspoons some of us chose to walk up to Lichfield Cathedral where the interior is always stunning for photography and a good subject for a very cold day. 

Pictures from Margaret Beardsmore

Pictures from David Murray

Pictures from Marie O'Boyle-Duggan

Pictures from 
Harold Potter

Day out to Aberystwyth 2024

Day at The Black Country Living Museum

After days of rain the sun rose on a beautifully clear, nippy morning as members of the club descended on the BCLM. Fortified by coffee we set off in different directions to explore the site. This isn’t a venue you can do in a day which is why the entry ticket is valid for 12 months making it great value as there’s so much there. It was relatively quiet except for a few coaches of ankle munchers which meant care had to be taken not to accidently include them in shots.  The costumed staff were a mine of information and full of amusing tales.  The highlight had to be the pawn broker who was hilarious and very happy to be photographed. Apart from the Victorian/Edwardian buildings there’s a new street with shops from the 50’s and 60’s, a real trip down memory lane for those of us of a certain age. Lunch in the Workers’ Institute was interrupted by a fire alarm going off so we had to decamp to the Elephant and Castle, a replica of the one demolished in Wolverhampton – they’re serving Banks’s ale but that may not be for much longer. We were given replacement food once we could go back to the Institute, although poor Glyn could only look on as they seemed to have forgotten his order (he did get fed eventually). If you haven’t been it’s well worth a visit as there’s something for everyone and it will certainly bring back memories from childhood. A big thank you to Margaret Beardsmore and Sally Arnott for arranging this.

Pictures from Margaret Beardsmore

Pictures from Harold Potter

Pictures from Jan Wilson

tobacconists
The Turn
The Mangle
The Pawnbroker

Pictures from 
Phil Jager

Pictures from Annie Lord

Pictures from David Perry

Pictures from Carole Perry

Pictures from David Murray