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Peterborough Society of Magicians
The Peterborough Society of Magicians was founded in 1980 when a band of enthusiastic magicians decided that they would be better off with a club in the city rather than having to travel 5O miles to the Nene Magic Club. The founder members consisted of Ed Strong, Bernard Carr, Mike Hawthorne and Terry Drudge. All of these magicians were friends who had belonged to the South Lincs Magical Society, and some of them belonged to the Leicester Magic Circle.
Prior to the formation of the P.S.M., magicians in the area met up for informal sessions at the Alderman Jacob School in Whittlesey where our good friend David Fisher was Headmaster and a fellow magician. Although the venue was free of charge it was never going to be a permanent solution to our requirements. Ed Strong on the other hand had the answer to our problems.
At the time Ed was a master baker with his own business in Werrington and he had a spare room above the shop, kindly offering this accommodation free of charge for the formation of a Peterborough based magic club. Thus was born the Peterborough Society of Magicians.
As our numbers grew it soon became apparent that bigger premises were required and it was decided that we would move out to the Deeping Leisure Centre in Market Deeping. This proved to be a short term solution in our search for premises. Our next move was to the Eye Community Centre on the outskirts of the city. This was also to prove unsatisfactory due to the cost and to the fact that the property was too small to accomodate our now famous Sale, Exchange and Lecture Day, the first of which took place in 1989.
So once more we had to look around for a suitable venue and once more Ed Strong came to our rescue through a contact he had at the Millfield Community Centre, on Lincoln Road. So once more we were on the move, but this time the venue proved perfect for our requirements. It had everything that we required, a nice club room, large car park and best of all the use of the whole centre for our Sale, Exchange and Lecture Day. The first meeting to be held at the Millfield Community Center took place on 14th July 1991. The P.S.M. is now firmly established, with a membership of around 30.