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  • Blackpool Convention report 2000

    Issue 47 of Film for the Collector magazine, published in February 2001, carried Barry Littlechild’s report on the first convention of the new millennium. The 24th Blackpool Northern Collectors Convention must go down in film collector journals as one of the best ever held. Just when I thought conventions must be coming to an end,…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1998

    The Winter 1998 issue of Film for the Collector magazine did not carry a formal Convention report, but did include several letters from attendees, including one from the organiser, Derek Simmonds of Derann Film Services. “THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR” No, not my own words, but those of many collectors as they left the recent…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1997 (2)

    The Winter 1997 issue of Film for the Collector magazine contained several letters from attendees which gave a flavour of the 1997 Convention. BLACKPOOL THANKS I felt I must write and express my thanks for every enjoyable day at the Blackpool Film Fayre. I have attended both the spring and autumn events over the past…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1997 (1)

    Issue 40 of Film for the Collector magazine ran a review of the 1997 Convention, originally published by the Edinburgh Cinema and Video Society. The 21st Northern Film Collectors’ Convention a homage by Peter Wilson The following article was originally written for, and published by ‘Cine Chat’, the official in-house magazine of the Edinburgh Cine…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1996

    The 1996 Convention was reported on in the Spring 1997 issue of Film for the Collector magazine. “TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN!” TWO OF OUR READERS SAY ‘THANK YOU’ FOR A GREAT WEEKEND Wow! What a weekend that was. I arrived in Blackpool after a tedious journey from Elstree, and instead of taking a…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1995

    Bob Nicholls reports on the 1995 Convention in Issue 62 (December 1995 / January 1996) of Silver Screen Magazine…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1994

    Colin and Lynda Foy report on the 1994’s Blackpool Convention in issue 56 of Silver Screen Magazine…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1993 (2)

    Colin and Lynda Foy report on the 1993 Convention in Silver Screen Magazine…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1993 (1)

    Barry Littlechild reports on the 17th Blackpool Convention in the March 1994 issue of Film For the Collector magazine…

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  • Blackpool Convention report 1992

    Keith Wilton reports on 1992’s Convention in issue 24 of Film for the Collector magazine, published Spring 1993. BLACKPOOL OR BUST KEITH WILTON LIFTS THE LID OFF THE 1992 NORTHERN FILM COLLECTORS CONVENTION AND TRIES TO ‘MURDER’ DON WALKER TOO! When a colleague informed me that the Blackpool hotel (near to ‘The Cliffs’) at which…

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