26th January 2010
Collectors may be interested to know that Brian Morland and Pat Tempest have just published "George Price - Victorian Champion of the Security Trade", a discussion of the life and the locks of George Price. Please see the following web-page for more details, or to order: www.historyoflocks.com/lib023.html.
25th January 2010
Please note that the collectors meal after the ICL exhibition has now been moved to 6.30pm.
12th January 2010
Details of the upcoming ICL meeting in Nottingham, together with the 9th European meeting in Germany have been posted on the upcoming events page.
9th January 2010
The Lock Collectors Association wishes everyone a Happy New Year. Issue 26 of the The Lock Collector is now available online for members to view. Paper copies contain a directory listing of association members which have been ommitted from the online copy. Members who do not receive paper copies can contact Tony Beck (secretary) at enquiries@lockcollectors.eu for details of other members if they desire.
14th October 2009
Visitors may be interested to know that Paul Prescott has a number of interesting home cutaway Yale 4511 safe deposit locks to sell. Please see here for further details.
12th April 2009
The Lock Collector journal, issue 23 is now available for members to view on this site.
15th March 2009
A number of historical articles have been added to the literature section of the members area.
22nd February 2009
Events page updated to include details for the 8th European lock collectors meeting in Parma together with the booking form for members.
20th December 2008
The current Lock Collector is available and we wish everyone the best for the festive season.
31st July 2008
The Lock Collectors AGM is now fixed for the weekend of the European lock collectors meeting in London (see upcoming events). It will start at 9.30am after breakfast at the Hotel (Royal National), and is expected to last no longer than one hour. If you have not yet booked your room at the Hotel and are planning to do so, please arrange, and kindly inform John Holden (who has a responsibility for booking reservations) by phone 0161 9280743, or e-mail johnholdensecurity@hotmail.co.uk, or write to John Holden Unit 3 Oakfield Trading Estate, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 8EJ.
29th June 2008
Some time ago J.H. Blakey of Brierfield (Burnley) agreed that our members could visit their premises. This firm is a working business dealing with locks, safes etc. Due to various problems of timing the meeting didn't proceed, however it is proposed to seek a renewel of the invitation at a convenient date. The Lock Collector journal, Issues 19 and 20 are now available for members to view on this site.
8th January 2008
The Lock Collector journal, issue 18 is now available for members to view on this site, together with a number of new articles in the members section.
19th September 2007
The Lock Collector journal, issue 17 is now available for members to view on this site.
28th June 2007
The Lock Collector journal, issue 16 was posted to subscribers on 28th June and is now available for members to view on this site. Printed copies are now priced at – for U.K. Subscribers £9.50; Europe £10; and elsewhere £11. This includes post/packing costs of the four quarterly issues.
The Association's AGM was held on Saturday 2nd June at Oldbury in the West Midlands. It was preceded by a day out visiting the Black Country Living Museum and fine weather helped to make this quite enjoyable. It is well worth a visit to see the Exhibition Centre and the working Museum included a trip on the trolley and other buses, plus a journey down an old drift mine for those of an adventurous nature.
Members decided to retain the annual membership subscription at £20. The next AGM will be held on Saturday 7th June 2008. Minutes of the meeting were circulated to members. It was agreed that a single page advertising leaflet should be prepared to pass out at suitable times, to provide those interested in lock collecting a note of what the Association does and hopes to extend our activities in the future, to more widely encourage participation. This is almost completed and so will shortly be available.
22nd April 2007
The Lock Collectors Association recently received a message from Dr. Hiren Shah from Ahmedabad in India whom a number of collectors may have met at the European lock collectors meeting in Velbert, 2003. Hiren will be visiting the UK and Ireland between 13th and 31st May this year, and would like suggestions for places to visit or fellow collectors to meet. Please send any messages to enquiries@lockcollectors.eu and we will pass them on.
February 2007
Our secretary, Tony Beck, gave a lecture on 24th February entitled 'A brief history of Chubb' as part of a Wolverhampton history symposium and even made it into the local newspaper! A copy of his presentation is available for download.
