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NEWCON: ACCOMODATION
Just 5 minutes walk from the Fishmarket is the Ibis Hotel in the Sol Central leisure complex. See here for more details.

NEWCON ACCOMODATION UPDATE
NEW & EVEN CLOSER HOTEL!
Due to increasingly close relations with the management of the Fishmarket, and their existing good relations with the almost adjacent Park Inn hotel (who are happy to lend Newcon lots of useful things), we are designating the Park Inn as our main hotel, with the Ibis Hotel as back-up. However, we have a very limited number of rooms reserved at the Park Inn, so early booking is recommended.

The Park Inn (more info here) is just one minute on foot from the Fishmarket. Special rates for Newcon will be £55 per night single, £60 for 2 people in a room. This is £5, and £10, more than the Ibis, but parking is free at the well-named Park Inn and breakfast is included irrespective of how many nights you stay. Please proceed to book and pay on our Newcon site as at present, but we will allocate guests to the Park Inn preferentially. The smoking situation at the Park Inn still has to be clarified. The Park Inn is due to undergo some refurb, so by October it may have changed from its present vivid blue exterior to a demure magnolia. The Park Inn is in Silver Street. (Not to be confused with nearby Gold Street, along the length of which an RAF plane crash-landed during WW2.)


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LATEST NEWS
Launch of official website

Membership Details
Membership rates:

£40.00 weekend membership
(£35.00 for BSFA members)
£25.00 day membership.
£10.00 Supporting


NEWCON: Member list
The member list is updated regularly, click here to see who is attending so far.

DEALERS
Dealer's tables cost £10 each for the weekend. To reserve a Dealer's Table, please send a cheque made out to "Newcon" to our Treasurer Ian Pursey, 16 Albany Road, Northampton NN1 5LZ, indicating your name and number of tables required.

Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece!
78 Derngate, Northampton
Among the delights of Northampton, for fans of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the town house he designed at 78 Derngate “with stunning interiors to delight and surprise,” scarcely 10 minutes stroll from the Fishmarket.

Guided tours of 78 Derngate were a big hit with attendees at our previous Newcon3. Now it isn’t even necessary to book a guided tour in advance. If you wish, you can do so, but otherwise you can just turn up and show yourself around, any time between 10.00 am and 4.30pm (last admissions) on the Saturday or Sunday of Newcon4 (or on the Friday if you turn up early for the convention). £5.50 for adults, £4.50 concessions – see www.78derngate.org.ukfor many more details.

Constitution: Cambridge
Constitution is a roleplaying, science fiction and fantasy convention run by the fans responsible for Recombination, to be held at New Hall, Cambridge on 31st July-2 August 2009. See http://www.constitution-con.org.uk/ for more details.

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