1910
February 12 1910
At the A.G.M. the Secretary reported that we had had an excellent year with the outings in the summer being well attended. The October Exhibition had been very successful with over 2000 entries being received.
The Treasurer told the club that there was a small adverse balance this year owing to special expenditure, but that it had been covered by donations.
This year Officers are:-
President: AB Casey
Vice Presidents: Messrs WH Barrell, FJ Mortimor and CR Porter
Secretary/Treasurer: JC Thompson
Assistant. Secretary: WE Tanner
Lanternist: R Fleming
Committee: Messrs WH Barrell, J Cromwell-Prior, S Dawe, LW Hewett and RAL Ready.
The Exhibition Secretary was FJ Mortimor.

March 9 1910
A packed club room assembled to hear Mr CH Livesly from the Osborne College, lecture on the “New Colour Photography”. He explained fully the distinctive character of the various processes on the market at present, dealing very fully with the question of exposure, which unlike “Black and White” photography was of a very precise nature, correct exposure was essential if good results were to be obtained.
He showed 80 plates through the lantern covering all the processes currently available, all of excellent quality showing quite clearly the strides that colour photography had made in a relatively short time.

October 28 1910
By popular demand, S Dawe was asked to give a more detailed demonstration on “making a combination negative”.
He took 4 negatives and using bits from each made transparencies. Then, with considerable skill and ingenuity combined them producing a landscape of considerable merit. It showed the skill possessed by Mr Dawe, that he could produce the transparency so easily in one evening, explaining each step as he went along. The club members were indeed grateful that they such advanced members in its ranks.

December 17 1910
Mr A J Fellows of the Eastbourne Club with A tour of the Western Counties”.
He showed an excellent set of lantern plates, all of very fine quality, covering all aspects of life and landscape. Mr Fellows had a very thorough knowledge of the locality and was full of little folk lore” stories which made the evening very interesting.

This years Annual Exhibition was at the Esplanade Assembly Rooms, where nearly 500 exhibits were on display.

1911
February 2 1911
The Treasurer told members at the AGM. that it had been a most satisfactory year, with the deficit of last year being wiped out and finishing with a small surplus this year.
Officers of the club will be:-
President: ET Hall
Vice President: Dr B Stone
Secretary/Treasurer: JC Thompson
Assistant Secretary: WE Tanner
Committee: Messrs Barrell, Casey, Dawe, Fleming, Heady and Colonel Johnstone.

February 16 1911
A novelty evening where 6 volunteers taking part were each given a print and told to exercise their discretion on how it should be mounted. A very lively discussion ensued led by S Dawe, ending with Mr Heady winning the prize for the best effort.

February 20 1911
Photographic success of a club member.
Mr LJ.Steele won first prize of £15 in a “Holidays
with a Camera” competition organised by the
Amateur Photographer and Photographic News.

October 9 1911
Dr Stone on Natural History.
Dr Stone has become well known in the area for his pictures of insects and he gave a very interesting talk to the club on how he went about it. Around the walls were a number of Dr Stones prints plus some excellent lantern plates. When asked how he got some of them to keep still, he said that he used a bottle that made them sleepy, but he wouldn’t tell members what was in it!

December 6 1911
Pictorial Photography” an illustrated talk by Mr S Dawe.
With Mr R Fleming working the lantern, Mr Dawe showed about 100 really superb lantern plates, it was in his opinion, as he had mentioned on a number of previous occasions that to be successful one had to become proficient in combination printing, but, with all the playing about in the world wouldn’t turn a failure into a success. Great care was required to get the basic plate correct at the start, then start to improve it by adding or subtracting bits.

1912
January 17 1912
At the AGM the Treasurer reported that the club was in a healthy state financially, but he asked the club to exercise caution as it was the Silver Jubilee of the club this year.
Elected to Office:
President: Dr Bertram Stone
Vice Presidents: WF Hunt, FJ Mortimor, CH Porter and S Dawe
Secretary/Treasurer: JC Thompson
Assistant Secretary: RAL Ready
Lanternist: R Fleming
Committee: Mrs Dawe, Messrs AB Casey, ET Hall, FS Hoyte and EJ Mowlam.
The Silver Exhibition will be held in the Esplanade Assembly Rooms from October 23 to 30th. It was also agreed that a special appeal should be made to many of the camera artists from all over the country to support the Exhibition. Mayor Scott-Foster, a member will officiate at the opening.

June 1912
To digress briefly, the first Colour Cine Film taken and shown in Portsmouth was at the Apollo Cinema in Albert Road Southsea, of the Royal Marines marching to the Garrison Church for a service and presentation of medals.

November 7 1912
A Practical demonstration by Mr Bell of Birmingham. The evening was in two halves, first to explain and show how to use the various “tools”, knives, brushes, pencils and the medium to use.
During the second half members were invited to try their hand. Mr Bell had brought plenty of tools with him and members had been invited to bring prints and plates with them. It turned out to be quite a hilarious occasion as members tried to emulate Mr Bells expertise.

December 12 1912
A very pleasant evening under the guidance of S Dawe assisted by R Fleming. “Picturesque Devonshire”, a travelling set lent by the Royal Photographic Society, and a very fine set they proved to be. The talk was made more interesting by the remarks of S Dawe who had lived there for a number of years and had an intimate knowledge of the county.

1913
January 10 1913
The only information that I have found about Club
Officers for this season was that of the President:
Dr Bertram Stone and the Secretary: JC Thompson.

A packed club room of members and friends attended to watch a lantern slide talk lent by the Royal Photographic Society, entitled the “People and Temples of Java”. The show consisted of well over 100 plates of immense interest, which were complimented by the graphic accounts of earthquakes, temples and habits of the people, read by Messrs Debenham and S Mowlam.

January 24 1913
Dr Bertram Stone demonstrated the Bromoil process. He explained the various brushes and the operations that they did, he stressed that the author had complete control over the process. After the interval members were given the opportunity to try their hand at it.

March 6 1913
Colour Photography” by LC Keating from Gosport..
After fully explaining the process that he was about to use, he proceeded to develop some previously exposed plates, several members accepting his invitation to do the same. In Mr Keating’s opinion it was easier to produce a beautiful colour print than a black and white one.

March 13 1913
An Annual Whist drive was held at the Clubs headquarters in Elm Grove to try and recuperate from the losses sustained in the Jubilee Year. The prizes were framed pictures donated by members, which were presented by Miss Dawe.

March 20 1913
“Home Portraiture” by Lieutenant S Mowlam RN.
Mr Mowlam is well known in the club for his skill in this branch of photography. He illustrated how he obtained his effects with lantern plates. It was obvious from the barrage of questions that he had aroused a lot of interest.

1914
January 9 1914
The Treasurer told members at the Annual General Meeting, that the Whist Drive had been very successful, but the funds were still depleted. Several very interesting schemes were put forward for the committee to consider to remedy the matter.
Officers elected:
President: S Dawe
Vice President: A Debenham
Secretary: JC Thompson
Assistant Secretary: Mr Harfield
Lanternist: C Worsford.

January 16 1914

Mr Holt talked about a tour of Southern Europe illustrated by a lot of fine lantern plates. He explained that he sent the exposed plates home for his brother to process, and on occasions picked up a fresh supply sent out to him. During the tour he had had quite a number of hair raising experiences, luckily without injury. He showed several plates that were taken by another photographer. It was quite obvious from the scenes depicted that Mr Holt was indeed very fortunate to escape injury.

March 5 1914
One of the many practical evenings, with Mr A Dawe speaking on the “Treatment of under and over exposed plates”. After talking about the various ways in which this could be achieved, he went on to treat plates brought in by members

March 12 1914
Gruyere Cheese and Chamoix Honey” was the title of a very humorous account of a tour of Switzerland, supported with a series of excellent lantern plates. The Club room being packed with members and friends for the occasion. Mr ET Hall, a member, who is well known amongst members of the Club for his photographic expertise and humorous manner.

April 17 1914
Mr Keating of Gosport on Orthochromatic photography.
He explained in very clear simple terms the difference between Ordinary and Orthochromatic plates, showing the immense difference by lantern plates when used to photograph coloured objects.

December 4 1914
Lieutenant Mowlam RN on “Home Portraiture”.
The Lieutenant is well known around the local clubs for his skill in this branch of photography. He illustrates his talks with prints and lantern plates, explaining how and why he had taken them as they were displayed.

December 18 1914
Mr A Dawe on “Printing in Clouds”.
This was a very interesting talk on how to print in clouds. Mr Dawe demonstrated the way to go about it. He stressed how easy it was provided, care was taken to observe certain “rules”. One thing that was extremely important was to get the “light right”. Nothing looked worse than if the directions of light clashed when printed together.

1915

Although the Great War was upon us, the Club still carried on, and there are a couple of noteworthy items.
The first, our President Mr S Dawe, had been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. He was only the second Club member to have achieved this distinction, the other being FJ Mortimor in 1905. Although FJ Mortimor had left Portsmouth in 1903, he was still a member of the Club, helping out whenever and wherever he could. He was currently the editor of “Amateur Photographer and Photographic News”. He also achieved world wide fame as a marine photographer.
The second item was the formation of the Southern Photographic Federation, which comprises all the leading photographic societies of the Southern counties. Mr Dawe, the Club President, was elected as the first President of the Federation.

Cecil C Davies joined the Club this year, and jt is mainly thanks to him that many of the old bits and pieces were kept. Apart from the enormous amount of information the Club owes Cecil a very big debt.

A very pleasant evening was spent in the Clubroom, with a circulating folio, from the newly formed Southern Federation. The folio contained photographs from nearly all the member clubs, with the quality being extremely high, one or two examples were quite exceptional.

A packed house listened to Mr E Baker of Southampton Camera Club talk on the “Bromoil Process”. He gave a very clear and precise talk on the materials, inks and tools (brushes) required. Mr Baker explained about the “inking up” of a previously prepared print. This particular evening was held under the auspices of the newly formed Southern Federation.

1916

The Club closed down this year because of the Great War. Regular meetings were suspended and were not resumed until hostilities ceased. However, according to Cecil Davies, informal meetings were held, there being no shortage of visitors, both Army and Navy personnel. There appeared at times to be a constant stream of visitors, and some very interesting “el fresco” evenings ensued.

1919

Cecil Davies was asked to take over the post of Secretary and to get the Club back into full swing again at the earliest opportunity. After a lot of very hard work this was accomplished and the first “post war” syllabus was produced in 1920. A Miss Campion (of the bakery family) was elected to the council. She was only the second member of the fair sex to take her place on the council, the first being Mrs Dawe.