Minutes of 2002 Annual General Meeting were read and approved.

Eddie Dawes said that 2002/2003 had been a highly successful year, shown by the enthusiasm in numbers of members attending meetings and competition entries. There were seven external lecturers, with Steve Beam and Jay Sankey from overseas. Our webmaster, Richard had secured Charles Gaucci from Australia as a bonus. Tony Griffiths, Mike O'Brien, Peter Scarlett and Cliff Lount's dealer Demonstration completed the external program. Jon Marshall’s talk on Handcuffs and Roni’s on Cold Reading were by our own members, as were evenings by Peter Smales, Jonathan Gaines and James Ashford, not forgetting the teach-ins by members.

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Introducing his guest tonight, Eddie Dawes said that Peter and Ilona Scarlett were hard working members of the magic fraternity. Peter works for both the British Ring and The Magic Circle, as well as being a performer, compere and dealer.
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Initiation Show - Alan Carter
Alan opened with a sucker torn and restored note, and followed with the invisible deck and finished with a four ace trick, where the aces changed backs and faces to finish as four kings.

Initiation Show - Jim Hyam
Jim opened with the 1089 prediction, followed by the classic four burglars. He finished with a routine using a Svengali deck. Both members were unanimously voted into membership.
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Introducing our speaker, Eddie Dawes said he was delighted to introduced Mike and Diane O'Brien, who were responsible for raising over £70,000 for The Magic Circle through the 'Meet The Magic Circle' evenings. Mike is a past winner of The Magic Circle Close-up award and the Carlton Comedy award. He had appeared at our Annual Dinner in 2001.
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Introducing Cliff Lount, Eddie Dawes said that the last visit was held in the old room in the Central Library. Eddie first met Cliff in Glasgow attending the Scottish Association of Magical Societies. Cliff had started in magic in 1949, and became involved as a dealer starting with the Magical Exchange Service. [Read More]

Eddie Dawes introduced Jay Sankey who had enthused us in 1999. Jay is a great ambassador for Canada. He was a Philosophy and Psychology Graduate, who at an early age had flummoxed Richard Kaufman with a tape of his own card and coin work, leading to his first book Sankey Panky. This first book was followed by a flood of ideas, books and tricks.
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Malcolm Bromwich opened the competition with Classic Aces from The Big Book of Magic by Patrick Page, including growing the cards to Jumbo size. Roger Hindson showed us Kane’s Variant, which gave Kerry Scorah three chances to win a twenty pound note by counting on a five card layout. Rex Stott used a silk routine from Paul Harris’s The Art of Astonishment Volume One, that gave rise to an interesting discussion during the show and tell session. [Read More]

Robert Crisp – answered the cry of Show us a Trick. Robert aimed to be able to perform without needing special equipment or bulging pockets. He showed a trick using a feature of some mobile phones to perform a prediction. He used a Hindu Shuffle force, but suggested a number of other ways of proceeding. [Read More]