TAFF - pg 46 the pubs had closed two hours previously! Consoling ourselves with brandy and rum we played the tape of the 1957 Kettering Convention and nattered the rest of the night away..... We didn't see Don again until Wednesday when he arrived back "on his knees" after taking in the historical sights of Tewkesbury with Bobbie...climbing up hundreds of stairs to the top of the Abbey Tower ("I didn't like to tell her, but I'm not very interested in all this ancient stuff") ("I didn't like to tell Don, but I can't stand heights") We eventually folded Don up in the back seat of a Hillman after he had met Frank Herbert and Shirley Stevens, (now MR. & MRS. Herbert) and transported him to St Fantony's Shrine (it being club night). Evidence that he has been there can be clearly seen by his signature on the wall of FAME (famous names like E.C. Tubb and Ken Bulmer and Harry Hurstmonceaux can also be seen there) although we had to supply him with a chair to stand on as EVEN HE couldn't reach to the top of the wall! GAVAGAN'S BAR was opened for this special occasion and a free supply of booze was available to all whilst we conducted Don around the more famous rooms of the C.S.F.C.'s fabulous home....the pump room where Charlie's leg still sticks through the ceiling after the cruel non-fen upstairs nailed the floor up over him...Don was also given tuition here regarding the English Flush-box, a vital THING for all T.A.F.F. winners to recognize. You pull AND RELEASE the handle! The LIBRARY, wherein rests SF by the yard (or meter) although it is very short of U.S. S-F magazines, was displayed with pride by its keeper - Peter Mabey. ADVERT. WANTED. DONATIONS FROM ALL U.S. FEN OF ANY OLD S-F MAGA- ZINES AND FANZINES FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LIBRARY. SEND THEM PARCELLED OR CRATED EVEN TO "THE LIBRARIAN, C.S.F.C., 130, LONDON ROAD, CHELTENHAM, GLOS, ENGLAND where they will find a very welcome home. FANZINE EDITORS. Britain's FANZINE FOUNDATION is also held at the above address....if you want your fanzine to go down in posterity, to be read by the millions of fen who come after you, then don't fail to send every copy (and back numbers if you have them) to the above address. Many Thanks! He regretted, however, that the C.S.F.C. hadn't been able to obtain apple boxes as easily as a certain U.S. fan, and had there- fore to resort to actually building bookshelves for that very pur- pose. |