A relic

Picked up on a visit to Epsom Playhouse this morning. A relic of the days when people joined clubs and societies, the days before the arrival of televisions. Clubs and societies about light opera, roses, leeks, model trains, model boats, telescopes; all sorts of things.

Activities of this one look to be arranged around evening talks in one of the rooms at the Playhouse. Will I be tempted to take a look?

They don't appear to have anything quite so modern as a website, but Google tells me that there are quite a few of these societies, scattered across the land. Federated at reference 1. Maybe my father, as a serious gramophone person, certainly by the late 1930's, was once a member of one of the affiliates?

PS: leeks because I once stayed in a pub somewhere up north which had what amounted to a leek society club room, complete with proud oaken boards carrying the names of past presidents.

Reference 1: https://www.thefrms.co.uk/.