From October 2023 WASC is hosting a regular series of Zoom Sessions for members. Advance details are emailed to members and details given on the WASC Meetings page. Files associated with past Zoom sessions are posted on this page.

How to access Zoom General note

November 2025

• Peter Rolfe's Sierra Leone formula airletters - part 2 by Philip Quirk
• Mail from Ascension by Graham Mytton
• *Questions: covers for collectors, Gold Coast/Ghana and A.E.K. Browne, Esq. by Martin Giles
• Evolution of the Gambian postal system –a postal history perspective, part 1. by Gary Loew
• African Steamship Company and CieBelgeMaritime 'Shared Vessels'. by John Hossack
• *Information and a question - three Nigeria censor covers & the 500N issue SG 525f by Graeme Murray

* items: members showed material they wanted information about. Discussion was able to give (most of) the answers

September 2025

• Nigeria space tracking stations by Tony Plumbe
• Mail in the former Portuguese colonies of West Africa by Graham Mytton
• Peter Rolfe's Sierra Leone formula aerogrammes by Philip Quirk
• A Togo overprint question by Paul Czopek
• Nigeria registered air mail to the U.K., 1956-57 by Rodney Knight
• New air mail acquisitions by Peter Richards.

May 2025

• Legitimate West Africa stamps 'Appendixed' by Stanley Gibbons by Graham Mytton
• UPU specimen stamps and the irregular block mystery by Gary Loew
• Gough Island (Tristan) mail bag tags by Richard Moss
• New airmail acquisitions by Peter Richards
• The 1953 Coronation issues of British West Africa by Fred Lutt
• Lagos War Prisoners' Bureau, 1914 by Rob May

February 2025

• Cameroons World War 2 censorship, part 1 by Tony Plumbe
• Nineteenth Century Maritime Mails to and from West Africa by John Hossack
• BOAC Trans–Africa Routes 1940-1945 by Peter Richards
• Ghana Cash on Delivery by Philip Quirk
• Some Nigeria covers and queries by Graeme Murray
• Nigeria canceller errors by Paul Redhead

November 2024

• The lesser known postmarks, flaws and peculiarities of Nigerian stamps, 1980-86 by Tony Simmonds
• BOAC air mail from West Africa, June 1940-May 1942 by Peter Richards
• Six questions re various Nigeria issues, 1953-1965. by Larry Hughes
• A curious post card from the Cameroons campaign by Rob May
• 150th anniversary of Nigeria's first stamps: Lagos 1874 and The Nigerian Philatelist Magazine by Simon Heap
• Some West African air mails by Peter Wingent

September 2024

• Selected Biafran postal history by Tony Plumbe.
• Ghana self-registration by Philip Quirk
• A query re Nigeria 4d SG224a small imprint by Richard Moss
• Some new acquisitions by John Froggatt
• Elder Dempster receipt marks by Anthony Simmonds
• A further selection of interesting covers from 'the Golden age' - 1960 to 2010 by Graham Mytton

June 2024

• Sierra Leone Postmarks Sequel by Simon Binsted.
• Using Photo software to measure and draw by Paul Redhead
• Aimail routing by Peter Richards
• Early post in Spanish Guinea by Rodney Knight
• Nigerian Varieties Part 1 Beyond the Catalogue by Tony Plumbe
• Tristan da Cunha, missing year slug by Richard Moss

March 2024

• Sierra Leone Postmarks by Simon Binsted.
• Nigerian Correspondence by John Wand.
• Postal Use of "Wallpaper" stamps for Sierra Leone and Ghana by Philip Quirk.
• Gold coast via Imperial Airways, 1936 by Peter Richards.
• Guinea (Conakry) Mail to the UK, 1980s and 1990s by Graham Mytton.

December 2023

• Using IT in Philately – Paul Redhead
• Postal stationery of Southern Nigeria – Neil Sargent
• Probabilistic Philately – Larry Hughes
• Second World War free Christmas Airletters – Peter Richards

October 2023

Two training sessions were held: one on how to use Microsoft Powerpoint effectively, the other on how to use Zoom effectively.

Powerpoint training files

• General note
• The powerpoint display used during the session
• The recording of the Zoom session (NB 180MB .mp4 file so will take a while to download, and unedited.)