Queen Vic North Cheam

I also went to the Sunday evening Jazz Club (much to my parents disgust!) about 1957 to 1962 - The people I remember are Geoff Harris, David Hilliker, Tony Holland - One of the tunes I remember the Band playing was 'the sun has got its hat on' Happy days - still love jazz and belong to the local Guildford Jazz Club (U3A) which has ;'live' band performances - Margaret Holland (nee Harris)

The Jazz Club at the Queen Vic is a special memory for me and I attended regularly in the mid-late 1950s. I preferred modern jazz and remember sax players Tubby Hayes and Don Rendell. Did drummers Tony Kinsey and Tony Crombie play there, or did I see them at the Wimbledon Palais where the Ted Heath Orchestra with singers Lita Rosa and Dickie Valentine often appeared? I do recall seeing Johnny Dankworth and his fabulous wife Cleo Laine at Wimbledon - not sure if they played the Queen Vic. Does anyone remember? I live in New Zealand now and belong to the Wellington Jazz Club. David Barber , barber.david01@gmail.com

Isn't the internet a wonderful thing! Who knew others would share the wonderful, happiest memories of my teen years in the mid-late 50's, while I was living in Wallington. I was one of the revivalists jiving my heart out and occasionally sitting to watch. I seem to remember one band member, double base I think, (Mike Daniels and his Deltamen, btw) who always wore heavy outdoor gear whatever the weather. Around 20 or so years ago a mutual friend mentioned Mike Daniels, saying he was playng at some dance night in Farnborough (NW Kent, not Hampshire) and we went along. Mike had returned from Spain and it was great to hear him again. It was somewhat distrurbing to watch a large room full of people with grey hair jiving as if the intervening 40 or so years had never happened. Never did take to modern jazz, but I was well into skiffle at the the same time with a group calling themselves the Mosaics because the string bass was painted with black and white squares. We were rubbish, of course, but did appear on the Carol Levis talent show at the Hammersmith Palace, to be introduced as the Mosiacs, probably because he was Canadian. We came last but it was still good fun.