The Kettering Conventions - a brief overview
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There were five conventions held in Kettering, four in the 1950s, and one in 2008, which was effectively a convention re-enactment, including some people who had actually been at the earlier events. See elsewhere on this webpage for details of that. The original 1950s conventions were small, with somewhat over 100 persons for the first two, and for numbers three and four less than 50. The 2008 event was deliberately small (as opposed to the 1950s cons which essentially included all active fans of the day) and around fifty persons attended. Despite their small size, lack of Guests of Honour, and minimal or no programming the Cytricons were part of the UK Eastercon series.
Go here for pictures of happy fans at play in the George in the 1950s.
Go here for more good Kettering pictures.
Go here for entertaining convention reports of events at various Kettering conventions
Go here for info on the beginnings and early days of the BSFA, which as we all know, Professor, was founded at the Kettering convention in 1958.
Go here for a reminder - or a revelation - of the scope of British fanzine production in 1958
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