Syd A. Beach
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Sydney[1] A. Beach was a UK fan from Aberystwyth in Wales active in the 1940s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Society.
He produced the single-issue fanzine Yoshiwara Supplement with Robert J. Silburn as a rider for Futurian War Digest and two issues of Lens, the first with Silburn and the second alone.
Gus Willmorth described meeting Beach in Fan Slants #2:
I finally arrived in Aberystwyth only an hour late and was greeted at the platform by Sydney Beach and Bob Silburn. Syd is six-one and Bob is even taller – I felt slightly outnumbered. Greetings were exchanged and we slipped away to the Beach residence where I was shown to some water and given HAM AND EGGS for breakfast. ... Both Beach and Silburn are English, understanding very little Welsh[2].
He is listed in the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945 but not in later directories.
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- ↑ His name is given variously as Syd or Sid.
- ↑ Rob Hansen, himself Welsh, has views about Willmorth's characterisation of 'English' and 'Welsh' here. Suffice to say, not speaking Welsh does not make the speaker English.
