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'''Coroncon''', the 1953 [[Eastercon]], held May 23-24, 1953 (Whitsun weekend) at the Bonnington Hotel on Southhampton Row in [[London]].  Arguably, this was the first modern [[British]] [[SF convention]], setting the standard for all that came afterwards.  As [[Rob Hansen]] notes, "among the new ideas to emerge there were [[name-badges]], [[James White]]'s [[zap-guns]] (a.k.a. water pistols), and [[room-parties]]."

There was no [[GoH]].  The [[committee]] was [[Fred Brown]] and others.

It was named "Coroncon" because 1953 was the year of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

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([[Bulmer]]) The [[London]] con of 1953, named after some mundane event or other that took place that year; christened thus ten seconds after the proposal for a con in 1953 had been mooted (at the '52 con, also in [[London]]). It was held at the Bonnington Hotel during the same weekend the Queen's Army Schoolmistresses Reunion [!!!] took place there. Site of the [[Roofcon]], and notorious for the quelling by unplayful porters of night party sessions. 
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