The end of the Second World-War, bringing with it an
anticipation of the resumption of nation-wide Canine Shows,
encouraged a group of London based Collie enthusiasts to
establish a new specialist regional club dedicated to promoting
the Collie whether Rough or Smooth coated.

 

The London Collie Club was granted its title in 1947, making it one of the earliest post-war Regional Collie Clubs, with Mr H. W. Webber ‘Hawkridge’ as secretary,
a position he held for just one year before handing the reigns
to Mr J. M. Crutchfield. During the next thirty-two years
the London Collie Club endured a total of eleven
different secretaries, only one of which served more
than two or three years, although two were to serve
two separate terms separated by a number of year.
The kind of stability other club’s had enjoyed
eventually arrived in 1980 when Mr Frank
Mitchell ‘Glenmist’ took the club in hand, remaining
in the secretary’s post until 2004.

 

On the 28th of May 1955, eight years after its
foundation, the London Collie Club held its first
Championship Show where Mrs Nadine George
did the double with Beulah’s Blanco-Y-Negro
and Beulah’s Silver Maravella, both home bred,
under respected all-rounder Mr J. Garrow who had
judged Rough Collies at this level on four previous
occasions, the first being Bath Canine Society in 1949.
The London Collie Club has since hosted an annual
Championship Show, usually in early June, scheduling
classes for both Rough and Smooth Collies.

 

By the 1990s the Rough Collie had no club based glossy year book,
although it did support a privately published handbook which enjoyed
a very international flavour and high reputation. Despite this
Mr Frank Mitchell decided that the time was right for a wholly British
handbook aimed at the home market, and in 1992 the London Collie Club Yearbook made its only appearance on Collie enthusiasts bookshelves. Reproduced within its pages were every Collie Breed Standard that had
ever been published in the United Kingdom, together with the first pictorial
parade of Champions made up in the preceding year.

The London Collie Club has the single simple objective of:

To promote the interests and well being of the
Rough and Smooth Collies

 

Membership is open to all.

For more details about what the London Collie Club has to offer
visit our web-site.