Microscopium – The Microscopists’ Fair
Saturday 8th August 2026
This was our fifth Microscopium at the Letchworth Settlement. As always, Microscopium provided members and visitors with a good opportunity to dispose of surplus items and to acquire new kit, and also provided an excellent opportunity to meet old friends, make new friends, and gossip over tea and coffee and over lunch. We had a good crowd of buyers. As usual, there were bargains ranging from leaflets, filters and bulbs for £1 to slide cabinets, a French Nachet compound with DIC, and an extensive Reichert Zetopan outfit.
Letchworth Settlement
As usual, many used microscopes, lenses, accessories, slides, books, etcetera were offered at reasonable prices for the benefit of amateur microscopists. These items, and any items that are given away, must NOT be subsequently sold on eBay at great profit, and anyone found doing so will not be welcome at future meetings.
We filled the main room, Kincaid Hall, with tables, and needed to overflow across the yard into the Spinks Room.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks to Mark Shephard, Stephen Parker and Lisa Ashby for successfully organising Microscopium again, with some very happy buyers and sellers, and to those who put out and packed away the tables and chairs.
Report and most photographs by Alan Wood