Medway Science and Fantasy Club
The Medway Science and Fantasy Club, originally announced as the Medway Science Fiction Fan Club, was a club formed in August 1952 in Gillingham, Kent, UK by Jeanne Thorne and Tony Thorne, the latter the proprietor of the Medway Science & Fantasy Centre bookshop. An initial meeting in the Thorne home agreed a membership fee of 2/6 plus a weekly contribution of 3d. It also set a minimum age of 18 ' in view of the technicalities of the subjects for discussion and also due to the limited space available'[1] although a junior section was proposed. Meetings were on Wednesdays and occasional Saturdays and by October 1953 there were about 20 members.
Their clubzine was The Medway Journal and in November 1953 they ran the Medcon. The club lasted until about 1960.
Members[edit]
The following are known or at least likely members:
Winnie Thorn's brother Ron was a member but we don't know his surname. Ian Cunningham contributed to The Medway Journal #3 but we don't know if he was a member or anything else about him.
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- ↑ The Medway Journal #1 (late 1952).
| Club | 1952—1960 |
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