Welcome

Welcome to Thornbury Camera Club - that's Thornbury in South Gloucestershire UK. The Club meets at the Old Bakery Annexe (1st floor), Chapel Street, just along the road from the Wheatsheaf public house in Thornbury. There is ample free parking in the St Mary Street car park.The Club welcomes photographers of all abilities.

The Club meets every Monday evening at 7.30pm for 7.45pm (September to April), and also has a reduced programme during the summer. The Monday meetings are a mix of guest speakers, competitions and practical evenings - see the programme page for details.

The Club runs a beginners' course during the autumn and students regularly join us for Club meetings. If you would like further details please contact us or just come along to one of our meetings. We meet here:

Club History

Thornbury Camera Club was formed in October 1969 and met weekly at the Chantry as a member group of the Thornbury and District Community Association (TDCA). The Club's name at that time was TDCA Photographic Group but by 1973 it was known as the Thornbury Camera Club.

Thornbury Camera Club continued to thrive at the Chantry where it established a permanent darkroom and ran instructive courses for beginners and also showed exhibitions to the public as part of the Thornbury Arts Festival.

In May 1983 the Club went its own way and left the TDCA, meeting weekly at the premises of the Thornbury Rugby Club. The constitution remained similar as did the format of events, which continues to this day.

We continued to meet weekly at the Rugby Club before transferring to a more central location at the Swan Hotel in Thornbury High Street. Life at the Swan was brief and we moved to our present venue in January 1991.

The early days of the Club favoured black and white photography but saw an increase in colour workers mainly showing transparencies. This continued until recently when black and white printing has almost ceased and the number of slide workers has fallen, to be supplemented by a huge rise in the popularity of digital imaging.