Kettering Minicon
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The Kettering Minicon was held June 3-5, 1960 (Whitsun weekend) at the George Hotel in Kettering, UK. It used the same venue as the four Cytricon Eastercons of 1955–8 but was deliberately a low-key minicon with only about a dozen attendees:
Jim Linwood later recalled in Prolapse #11 (May 2008):
A near-dozen of us just turned up at the George without booking in advance and had the place almost to ourselves with just Boris the waiter serving us in the evening. The first night we all bought booze at an off-licence and retired to Ella's room to party. Archie had a bottle of Drambuie which, after a few sips, he decided he didn't like and passed the bottle to me saying, 'Here, finish this off.' I'd never tasted liqueur before, thinking it was just a pleasantly-flavoured wine and the next morning I awoke with my first-ever hangover.
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