1990s
In correspondence with (& designing for)
Steve Sneyd of Hilltop Press, Fran & Brian Varley, Rob Hanson of THEN, Ken Cheslin of The Olaf Experience &cet., Hazel & Malcolm Ashworth, Beryl & Archie Mercer, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheryl Birkhead, Tim Allen & Steve Soames of Terrible Work, Tommy Ferguson of Tash, Ned Brooks of It Goes on the Shelf, John Owen of Shipyard Blues, Simon Ounsley of Lagoon, Noel Hannan of Nightfall, Art Widner of Yhos, Alan Hunter, Leah & Dick Smith of Stet, Chuck Connor of Thingumybob, Derek Pickles, "The Same" Dave Rowe, Tom Sadler of The Reluctant Famulus, Jan Orys of VSOP, Andrew Darlington, Joy & Sandy Sanderson, Yvonne Rouse of Barmaid
 HT front cover on Yhos 55
May 1991
Mixicon IV, 3rd-6th May, Cairn Hotel, Harrogate, H.T. signed up 85th, 4 ahead of Ken Bulmer.
September 1991
Work in Progress 2 published in Hazel Ashworth's LIP #6
February 1992
Death of Eric Bentcliffe
April 1992
Gardening Notes published in Chuck Connor's Thingumybob 5
Letter, H.T. to Steve Sneyd: Vin¢ was asking me if I knew an early fanartist called F.W. Doody. I told him it sounded very pseudonymous. He replied saying that Doody had done several Novae Terrae covers. It was only the next day that I realised that "F.W. Doody" was a Leeds sparring partner in the late 30s—actual name Frank Dobby. Or F.W. Dobby. So it goes... I am waiting to hear Vin¢'s reappraisal after he's studied the signatures more closely: Frank was into surrealism, and probably pointed me in that direction.
Letter, H.T. to Vin¢ Clarke on 12th April: My feelings toward the RAF oscillate wildly: it still hurts that I had to waste five whole years of my life - key years - in the forces. They called me up the week I'd arranged to get married, and they sent me abroad just as we were expecting the firstborn... On the other hand, I didn't get called up for a year after I registered since my records were destroyed in blitzes on Manchester. And in that time several friends had been killed.
I hated all the bull and battle training, but I enjoyed the technical training, and once I was working on radar, I was mixing with like-minded mates, many of them sf readers and generally congenial company, who made the most remote postings tolerable.
I guess I acquired considerable practical expertise that I would have missed in civvy street: being a radar mech meant that as well as radio theory, you had to be an electrician, metalworker, carpenter, operate and maintain diesel generators, use meters and oscilloscopes in tracking down equipment faults, and generally know what you were doing to the extent that you could improvise to ensure the equipment went on working regardless. All of which has come in useful in terms of DIY activities since.
Again, the RAF dragged me into a healthier way of life: I suppose all that enforced exercise is standing me in good stead now... And while being stuck out in India for well over a year after the war ended was heartbreaking in impossible otherwise. They were impressionable years, which is why so much sticks and stays fresh as memories.
May 1992
Letter, H.T. to Steve Sneyd: Vin¢ mentioned that a fan I knew well in the 50s and then again in the 70s—Eric Bentcliffe—had died of cancer at the end of Feb. Last saw him at the Leeds CONception: we exchanged the occasional letter and threatened to get together some time in Stockport: but never did. Now I keep finding notes to contact him over various Space-Times covers I did for him Iong ago, whenever I riffle through the accumulating papers. I didn't realise he was ill, though I recollect he did say, pointedly, that he'd had to give up smoking.
20 October 1992
Letter, H.T. to Steve Sneyd: I can vouch that ACC was dubbed 'Spaceship' during our stay at Yatesbury (see WiP 1, (Lip 4, 1988, p.20) at least; don't know if it followed him on in his RAF career... Will he interested to see the review you mention in due course. I keep meaning to look out for Arthur's book when I'm in town, but usually seem to be dashing for trains back and no time for browsing.
1993
HT front cover on Chuck Connor's Thingumybob 7
Recycled HT illo from Zenith 4 in The Reluctant Famulus 26
HT front & back covers on Terrible Work 2
May 1993
Death of Sandy Sanderson
November 1993
Harry Turner art showcase published in Critical Wave 33
December 1993
HT cover on The Third Alternative
1994
HT's DIY Project #1 in Chuck Connor's Thingumybob 10
HT's DIY Project #2 in Chuck Connor's Thingumybob 12
HT cover on The Reluctant Famulus 31
HT cover on The Reluctant Famulus 34
HT cover on Tash 10
"Mangrove" & "The Case of the Copper-Plated Kitten" from N&T #4
reprinted in The Olaf Alternative #6
June 1994
Seem to have picked up on correspondence with Ken Bulmer, who was tickled by some of my wartime pieces and found himself getting all nostalgic. I find, increasingly, that linear time is replaced by a sense of events and memories laid out like a vast painting, with details simultaneously on view. It's all becoming part of the Present. Odd. Must be really getting Old.
• Also in correspondence with Arthur Clarke, who says: "it's getting lonely up here on Dinosaur Platform".
September 1994
In correspondence with Ned Brooks (Newport News, Virginia) of Slant and New Port News, whose zip code has an average elevation above sea level of 11.15 feet.
October 1994
In correspondence with Rob Hanson of THEN, providing recollections and copies of fan-publishings
1995
HT cover on The Reluctant Famulus 41
 1996
HT front & back covers on Terrible Work 6, also 5 interior illos
June 1996 [letter to Fran & Brian Varley]
I had a letter from Derek Pickles a short while ago in which he mentiond in passing that he hoped to visit Stockport one Sunday during the summer to meet up with Dave Cohen, who now lives in Offerton. I was invited to the gathering, but just made vague noises about the rotten public transport here on Sundays... His latest communique announces that he'll be travelling on the M62/M63 and intends to call for me on his way to Stockport. Help! Have I no excuse? I just hope that if the meeting does materialise, Dave does not have any plans for another Manchester con...
June 1996
Extract from Now & Then #2 in The Reluctant Famulus #45
August-December 1996
In correspondence with Archie (& Beryl) Mercer over authorship of Widowers' verses.
August 1996
Got a fanzine called "Waxen Wings & Banana Skins" pubbed by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer, who appear to be on the committee running the Eastercon due in Manchester in 1998... I guess Vin¢ must have pointed them in my direction: So, I dodge Dave Cohen, but other threats hover !
A 64-page mag, most of the content eluding my immediate interests... I've sent a copy of N&T 6 and a few pamphlets of bits ‘n' pieces of past articles by way of acknowledgement while I plough thru it searching for loc-worthy points, but have a suspicion that the matter of the con will be raised directly, in due course. (Get your T-shirts here!!) We'll see.
December 1996
HT's DIY Project #3 in Chuck Connor's Thingumybob 15
"A few oddments of mail awaited me – like Thingumybob#15 from Chuck Connor, who is now out of the Services and back in the UK, and using at long last my 'DIY instructions to build thingumybob3' and various other dated items from his files to make up the issue, in a bid to get back on track. (Gosh, is it really three years ago since I drew that DIY item? Obviously time to get down to something new!)" [from a letter to Fran & Brian Varley]
Spring 1997
The Eclipse of the Century published in Tom Sadler's The Reluctant Famulus #48
HT illos in The Reluctant Famulus 49
1998
The Rocket That Was Meant For A Planet Explodes In Manchester republished in Banana Wings #10
 Visit to Romiley by Art Widner of Yhos with Shirley Atkins in April.
H.T. "co-opted to appear on a couple of art panels"; one of pro-artists, the other on fanart & fanzines; at INTUTITION Eastercon in Manchester.
May 1998
Death of Fran Varley
October 1998
Millennium Countdown: 448 days to go. Did you know that Vincent van Gogh, famous for his painting of sunflowers, lived only 448 months before committing suicide? Another Famous Fact brought to you by the Daily Mail Millennium Service.
1999
HT cover on Novacon Progress Report 3
HT covers on Banana Wings 4 (back); Banana Wings 5 (back); Banana Wings 6 (both); Banana Wings 7 (front); Banana Wings 10 (front)
HT Illo in Banana Wings 8
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