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District of Hemlington Show Society
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Logo: Information needed      
Known as: DHSS
Formed: Information needed      
Disbanded: Yes, 1990s
Specialties:  Showing fish             
Meetings: No formal meeting were held as it was a show club
Open Show: No open show held
Open Show Award Cards:  
Auctions: No auctions held
Members: Robbie Kirkup, Karen Kirkup, Steve King, Steve Tipper, Dereck Stott, Kevin Rodway, John Chapman, Marcia Flint.
Additional Information:
DHSS never affiliated to the FBAS of TTAA but its members were major contributors to the prize lists at the region's open shows. Steve King is seen here next to the club's stand at one of the Scottish Aquarist Festivals in the mid 80s.
'District of Hemlington Show Society (DHSS), was purely a show club created, as was Northumbria before, and Rainbow and Sunderland Coldwater & Pond keepers later.
The enthusiastic members would finance the construction and put in the hundreds of man-hours needed to produce tableauxs to exhibit fish at Open Shows and Festivals.
The main man was Stevie King with support from myself & girlfriend Steve Tipper, guest spots were given to Kevin Rodway, John Chapman and Marcia Flint. We were very successful around the shows, I remember being at the Scottish Aquarist Festival were DHSS took all the major awards, I left in the early hours of the next morning with the back-up fish, picked up more at home and went on to the TTAA Show at Darlington and won Best Society. When DHSS supported an open show it meant 200 extra entries, most being shown by Derek Stott.In the latter days of tableaux building, societies had to man their exhibits, answer questions from the public and, most important, (as long as you did not live 400 mile away) and attract new members. DHSS was the only society excused from this at the Sandown Festival; after the first half-day a number of irate people approached the table, one wanting to know who had photographed his girlfriend leaving his house, or wondering when they would get their Giro, or why we did not have a Social Security form to fill-in and hand back. They confused the society with the Dept of Health and Social Security'. Robbie Kirkup

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