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The NSFC achieved a worldwide membership of 60 or more. A partial list of members was included in ''Space Times'' #1 but as of 2024 a copy of that hasn't been traced and it may be lost to the ages. The list was continued in #2, and new members were announced in subsequent issues. The number following the name in the list below is the issue of ''Space Times'' in which the membership was confirmed. Known founder or otherwise early members are marked (1?) as it's assumed they were noted in the likely lost first issue.
 
The NSFC achieved a worldwide membership of 60 or more. A partial list of members was included in ''Space Times'' #1 but as of 2024 a copy of that hasn't been traced and it may be lost to the ages. The list was continued in #2, and new members were announced in subsequent issues. The number following the name in the list below is the issue of ''Space Times'' in which the membership was confirmed. Known founder or otherwise early members are marked (1?) as it's assumed they were noted in the likely lost first issue.
  
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Names marked * lived outside – sometimes considerably outside – the north-west area.
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Local members
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# [[Peter Baillie]]* (5)
 
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# [[Sgt Barstow]]* (6)
 
 
# [[Eric Bentcliffe]] (1?)
 
# [[Eric Bentcliffe]] (1?)
 
# [[Phil Best]] (2)
 
# [[Phil Best]] (2)
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# [[Ron Burrows]] (2)
 
# [[Ron Burrows]] (2)
 
# [[Dave Cohen]] (1?)
 
# [[Dave Cohen]] (1?)
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# [[Tony Cooper]]* (2)
 
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# [[Lyell Crane]]* (7)
 
 
# [[Edith Crowther]] (2)
 
# [[Edith Crowther]] (2)
 
# [[Ken Crowther]] (2)
 
# [[Ken Crowther]] (2)
 
# [[Ray Daniels]] (6)
 
# [[Ray Daniels]] (6)
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# [[Frank Dodd]]* (3)
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# [[George Ellis]] (1?)
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# [[George Ellis]] (?)
 
 
# [[Cyril Evans]]
 
# [[Cyril Evans]]
 
# [[Frances Evans]]
 
# [[Frances Evans]]
 
# [[John Russell Fearn]] (patron)
 
# [[John Russell Fearn]] (patron)
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# [[Eva Firestone]]* (2)
 
 
# [[Donald B. Gooch]] (9)
 
# [[Donald B. Gooch]] (9)
 
# [[Johnny Gott]] (10)
 
# [[Johnny Gott]] (10)
 
# [[J. Greenberg]] (9)
 
# [[J. Greenberg]] (9)
 
# [[Bill Hague]] (2)
 
# [[Bill Hague]] (2)
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# [[James Harper]]* (4)
 
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# [[C. H. Hasted]]* (5)
 
 
# [[Frank Hayes (UK)]] (6)
 
# [[Frank Hayes (UK)]] (6)
 
# [[Eric Hubeand]] (7)
 
# [[Eric Hubeand]] (7)
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# [[Eric Jones]]
 
# [[Eric Jones]]
 
# [[Sid Klepper]] (1?)
 
# [[Sid Klepper]] (1?)
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# [[John Koestner]]* (2)
 
 
# [[Bernard Lee]] (2)
 
# [[Bernard Lee]] (2)
 
# [[Pat Lee]] (2)
 
# [[Pat Lee]] (2)
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# [[Brian Lewis]]* (7)
 
 
# [[Geoff Lewis]] (2)
 
# [[Geoff Lewis]] (2)
 
# [[Frank Leyland]] (2)
 
# [[Frank Leyland]] (2)
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# [[Donald McCormick]] (2)
 
# [[Donald McCormick]] (2)
 
# [[Mr McDermott]] (7)
 
# [[Mr McDermott]] (7)
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# [[Orville W. Mosher]]* (7)
 
 
# [[D. Peter Ogden]] (2)
 
# [[D. Peter Ogden]] (2)
 
# [[H. B. Pedavitz]] (2)
 
# [[H. B. Pedavitz]] (2)
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# [[Ray E. Pate]]* (5)
 
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# [[Tom Piper]]* (9)
 
 
# [[Frank Richards]] (1?)
 
# [[Frank Richards]] (1?)
 
# [[George Richards]] (7)
 
# [[George Richards]] (7)
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# [[Fred Robinson]]* (7)
 
 
# [[D. Rosenberg]] (9)
 
# [[D. Rosenberg]] (9)
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# [[Mike Rosenblum]]* (5)
 
 
# [[Sandy Sanderson]] (4)
 
# [[Sandy Sanderson]] (4)
 
# [[Charles Saunders]] (6)
 
# [[Charles Saunders]] (6)
 
# [[Phil Schless]] (2)
 
# [[Phil Schless]] (2)
 
# [[Robin Silburn]] (2)
 
# [[Robin Silburn]] (2)
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# [[Dag Siggerud]]* (2)
 
 
# [[Frank Simpson]] (1?)
 
# [[Frank Simpson]] (1?)
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# [[Ken Slater]]* (5)
 
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# [[Dale R. Smith]]* (1?)
 
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# [[D. R. Smith]]* (2)
 
 
# [[K. E. Smith]]
 
# [[K. E. Smith]]
 
# [[Paul Sowerby]] (2)
 
# [[Paul Sowerby]] (2)
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# [[Elmer D. Standish]]* (9)
 
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# [[Bob Swartz]] (2)
 
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# [[Tony Thorne]]* (4)
 
 
# [[Brian Varley]] (4)
 
# [[Brian Varley]] (4)
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# [[Thomas N. Watt]]* (7)
 
 
# [[Taffy Williams|A. E. 'Taffy' Williams]] (1?)
 
# [[Taffy Williams|A. E. 'Taffy' Williams]] (1?)
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# [[Walter A. Willis]]* (3)
 
 
# [[John Wright]] (7)
 
# [[John Wright]] (7)
 
# [[Margaret Wroe]] (7)
 
# [[Margaret Wroe]] (7)
 
# [[Ken Woodward]] (2)
 
# [[Ken Woodward]] (2)
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The following were members of the NSFC but lived outside the area that might be termed the north-west, often significantly so. Names marked * lived outside the UK:
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# [[Peter Baillie]] (5)
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# [[Sgt Barstow]] (6)
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# [[Tony Cooper]] (2)
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# [[Lyell Crane]]* (7)
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# [[Frank Dodd]]* (3)
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# [[Eva Firestone]]* (2)
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# [[James Harper]] (4)
 +
# [[C. H. Hasted]] (5)
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# [[John Koestner]]* (2)
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# [[Brian Lewis]] (7)
 +
# [[Orville W. Mosher]]* (7)
 +
# [[Ray E. Pate]]* (5)
 +
# [[Tom Piper]]* (9)
 +
# [[Fred Robinson]] (7)
 +
# [[Mike Rosenblum]] (5)
 +
# [[Dag Siggerud]]* (2)
 +
# [[Ken Slater]] (5)
 +
# [[Dale R. Smith]]* (1?)
 +
# [[D. R. Smith]] (2)
 +
# [[Elmer D. Standish]]* (9)
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# [[Bob Swartz]] (2)
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# [[Tony Thorne]] (4)
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# [[Thomas N. Watt]]* (7)
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# [[Walter A. Willis]] (3)
 
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Revision as of 02:49, 25 December 2024

Nor'west Science Fantasy Club was a UK club based in Manchester and abbreviated as NSFC.

Eric Bentcliffe was seeking like-minded individuals and contacted Dave Cohen via Operation Fantast. Cohen was already in touch with Frank Richards and A. E. “Taffy” Williams and the four met up in January 1951. Cohen suggested the Waterloo Hotel in Cheetham Hill as an ongoing meeting place and a newspaper advertisement drew in more people, leading to the birth of the Nor'west Science Fantasy Club.

Members attended the Mancon in 1952 and sponsored Supermancon in 1954. Club membership peaked at 60 or so, including Brian Varley and Sandy Sanderson, both in the army and stationed in the area. Frances Evans was an early recruit, the first and for most of its history only female member. However, Sanderson claimed that the active membership in 1952 was only about six people (Femizine #9, May 1956).

The NSFC clubzine was Space Times edited by Bentcliffe with for some issues Eric Jones, and Bentcliffe produced Checklist of British SF And Fantasy Magazines for the club in spring 1952.

John Russell Fearn was the group's patron[1].

The club disintegrated in early 1954 before the Supermancon.

Members described it in TNFF Vol. 10, #4 (August 1951, p. 25).

Members[edit]

This list is a work in progress

The NSFC achieved a worldwide membership of 60 or more. A partial list of members was included in Space Times #1 but as of 2024 a copy of that hasn't been traced and it may be lost to the ages. The list was continued in #2, and new members were announced in subsequent issues. The number following the name in the list below is the issue of Space Times in which the membership was confirmed. Known founder or otherwise early members are marked (1?) as it's assumed they were noted in the likely lost first issue.

Local members

  1. Eric Bentcliffe (1?)
  2. Phil Best (2)
  3. Jack Bowman (9)
  4. Ron Burrows (2)
  5. Dave Cohen (1?)
  6. Edith Crowther (2)
  7. Ken Crowther (2)
  8. Ray Daniels (6)
  9. George Ellis (1?)
  10. Cyril Evans
  11. Frances Evans
  12. John Russell Fearn (patron)
  13. Donald B. Gooch (9)
  14. Johnny Gott (10)
  15. J. Greenberg (9)
  16. Bill Hague (2)
  17. Frank Hayes (6)
  18. Eric Hubeand (7)
  19. Wilf Jennings (2)
  20. Bill Jesson (2)
  21. Eric Jones
  22. Sid Klepper (1?)
  23. Bernard Lee (2)
  24. Pat Lee (2)
  25. Geoff Lewis (2)
  26. Frank Leyland (2)
  27. S. Marshall (5)
  28. Donald McCormick (2)
  29. Mr McDermott (7)
  30. D. Peter Ogden (2)
  31. H. B. Pedavitz (2)
  32. Frank Richards (1?)
  33. George Richards (7)
  34. D. Rosenberg (9)
  35. Sandy Sanderson (4)
  36. Charles Saunders (6)
  37. Phil Schless (2)
  38. Robin Silburn (2)
  39. Frank Simpson (1?)
  40. K. E. Smith
  41. Paul Sowerby (2)
  42. Brian Varley (4)
  43. A. E. 'Taffy' Williams (1?)
  44. John Wright (7)
  45. Margaret Wroe (7)
  46. Ken Woodward (2)

The following were members of the NSFC but lived outside the area that might be termed the north-west, often significantly so. Names marked * lived outside the UK:

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  1. ↑ Space Times #18 (December 1953).
Club 1951—1954
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