Camera Club honours their “most famous member”, Prince Philip

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QuoteNearly as old as it's "most famous member", the Accrington Camera Club is celebrating not only their 115th birthday but also one of their one, Prince Philip.

After sending some his own pictures that the Duke of Edinburgh took on his own while bird watching after the club wrote to him on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's silver jubilee in 1977, the Camera Club made Prince Philip an honorary member.

Vice-president Harry Emmett told the Lancashire Telegraph: "At the time we were told we'd have no money to mark the Queen's silver jubilee.

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