Norcon II

(Did you mean Norcon II in New Zealand?)

Norcon II was a convention in Leeds in the UK running from December 29, 1944 to December 31, 1944 held in the home of J. Michael Rosenblum and at the Dick Sheppard Centre.

There is a slight uncertainty about the attendees. In the British Fantasy Society Bulletin #20 Rosenblum lists fourteen people. Gus Willmorth, Ron Holmes and Rita James, Roy Johnson, Ron Bradbury, George Ellis, Ron Lane and himself had all been at the previous gathering. James was Holmes's girlfriend and may not have been a fan per se. They were this time joined by a further six: Edwin Macdonald, Joyce Fairbairn, Ken Chadwick, Brenda Gabrielle Lee, Miriam Harris, and Arthur Harris. Rosenblum seems certain of the numbers, even noting that there were at most thirteen people at any one time with MacDonald only attending on Sunday and Fairbairn on Saturday.

However in Fanewscard #107 he gives fifteen attendees, adding Athole Carter and in Fanewscard #101 he also gives the names Ralph Orme, Arthur Gardner, Donald Houston and Harold Gottliffe. So there may have been up to nineteen.

As well as socialising, there was a quiz with Leeds (which for these purposes included Los Angeles in the person of Willmorth) beating the rest of the UK. The auction on Sunday raised £3 which was to be put towards either promoting a post-war convention or establishing a central library. At the auction, 'Recent prozines, especially Amazing Stories, were something of a drug on the market, but considerable interest was shown in books' according to the Bulletin #20.

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