{"id":3586,"date":"2023-03-31T19:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:37:28","slug":"3586","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/3586\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway Fifties SF Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/thorne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/thorne.jpg 551w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/thorne-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/thorne-330x317.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just discovered that a group of SF enthusiasts formed the <em>Medway Science and Fantasy Club<\/em> in the early 1950s with a bookshop in Gillingham, a fanzine and even hosted its own convention, <em>Medcon<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/fiawol.org.uk\/\/fanstuff\/THEN%20Archive\/1953Medcon\/medcon01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Hansen maintains incredibly interesting pages documenting the history of the group<\/a> and the FANAC Fan History Project hosts pdfs of their fanzine, <a href=\"https:\/\/fanac.org\/fanzines\/Medway_Journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Medway Journal<\/a>. The photos of the group are really of a more innocent age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just discovered that a group of SF enthusiasts formed the Medway Science and Fantasy Club in the early 1950s with a bookshop in Gillingham, a fanzine and even hosted its own convention, Medcon. Ron Hansen maintains incredibly interesting pages documenting the history of the group and the FANAC Fan History Project hosts pdfs of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}