About Northallerton Camera Club
The club has, with breaks during WWII, met continuously since its inauguration in 1933 and our members enjoy a dynamic programme with an interesting and varied series of events throughout each season. Every evening is a pleasant social occasion, at which members can share tips and experiences on all aspects of photography.
We meet in the Methodist Church Hall at Brompton near Northallerton, where we enjoy excellent facilities for our members. We only ask that members, arriving in their cars park with consideration for local residents, as we are located in the middle of the village. Please DO NOT park on the grass, this is an offence.
Members of the club provide up to three evening’s entertainment each year to help raise funds for the church. Since the 1960’s the club has made a practice of assembling slide shows from contributions by its members, which we then take out and show to local groups and organisations. Our latest offering is entitled “A to Z Around North Yorkshire” and became available last season, during our “75th Anniversary” year.
We also enjoy friendly relationships with neighbouring clubs; enjoying joint meetings on occasions, as well as competing with some of them, either individually or collectively at regional events.
The club was a founder member of the NYSD (North Yorkshire & South Durham Photographic Association) in 1952 and is still active in the organisation. We have competed in their Annual Competitions and have met with considerable success, winning both the Prints and Slides Sections (now replaced by Projected Digital Images) on a number of occasions and we have been declared the Overall Winners four times, the latest being in 2009.
In 1993 we joined the NCPF (Northern Counties Photographic Federation) and became affiliated to the PAGB (Photographic Alliance of Great Britain).
In the Federation’s Annual Competitions we have enjoyed considerable success with the club winning the “Galloway Rose Bowl” for the best club entry of Slides on no less than nine occasions, the latest being in 2010. In 2008, for the first time we won the “Bewick Trophy” for the best club entry of Colour Prints. In 2009 we came joint first in the Projected Digital Images(PDI) competition, held for the first time that year and also won it outright in 2010.
In the Federation’s Club Championships we have won the Slide Trophy on six occasions, the latest being in 2008. which was in fact the last year that this competition was held in slides; since 2009 it has been known as the PDI Trophy. That being said we have continued to win that trophy, claiming it in each of the 3 years since, including as recently as February 2011. The clubs placed first and second in the competition are invited to represent the Federation at the PAGB National Club Slide (now PDI) Championships, each year. On that basis we have competed there 12 times out of the last 13 years, reaching the finals on six occasions.
In the Prints, up to this year we had been placed second three times and as a result have also represented the Federation on three occasions at the PAGB National Club Print Championships. In 2011, the club has not only won the PDI Section at the NCPF Club Championships, for the 3rd year running, but also, for the very first time, we have won the NCPF Prints Club Championship as well. This means that the club will represent the NCPF at both Warwick (PDI) in July and at Connah's Quay (Prints) in the PAGB National Club Championships. This means we have been to Warwick 13 times in 14 years and have been to Connah's Quay 4 times in 8 years, a proud record for any club.