Editorial . . . by Avril Lansdell, editor

This is a smaller newsletter than usual, but to compensate we have a double sized Old Cards List, as well as booking forms for Cardmeet and your subscription. There are no articles in this issue - one of the reasons why it is smaller than usual - but it is full of news and there are three more mystery cards for you to puzzle over.

There were no answers to last issue's mystery cards problems. Are we all to busy to answer or were these really cards that no-one knows anything about. The mystery cards service has been very popular - particularly with those who have cards they cannot place in context - do the members want it to continue or are you tired of puzzling over other member's cards and feel that they ought to do their own research? Letters to the editor would be very welcome for the next issue.

Some of you may have realised that I have been having trouble with my old typewriter. Some of the keys no longer work. Because of this I owe you all an apology because the last issue was numbered "Volume 1. no. 4". It should have been "Volume 21. no. 4" and I missed the fact that I had not written in the '2' when I was proofreading it myself. (I now have no proof reader because my daughter-in-law now has a full-time job and can no longer find time to proof read for me.) Please re-number it for me.

The good news is that I now have a new typewriter. It is the same make and model as the old one but this one is new, shiny, clean and everything works! So I don't have to struggle to learn how to use a new machine's layout and can type away on this one at the same speed as with the last.

The I.W.A. has been very busy this last quarter moving its headquarters to new offices. The address in on page 4. The National Rally will be in Worcester this year (see page 5) so, at last I will be able to go to it. The postcard [below] is of the canal in Worcester outside the Civil War Centre. This is called the Commandery and is well worth a visit when you are in Worcester. (It has a good little cafe, too.)

Our first mystery card is on the cover. I am sure that some of our northern members can give Bob Eveleigh further information about the exact canal this Heritage Centre is located on. Answers to me, please.

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