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⬆️Tofts Club

You had this message on the board and I would like to follow up on this please:

Tofts Club Apr 5 2013Sorry, but this is not correct. The club was named TOFTS after its owner/founders Harold and Doris Toft. They were ballroom dancers who had moved to Folkestone, from Yorkshire I think. When I first heard of it in about 1961 or 1962, the club was referred to as TOFTS JAZZ CLUB. It was situated in the annexe to the old Pleasure Gardens Theatre and moved to new premises on Grace Hill in 1964 when the theatre was due to be demolished. It may have been renamed TOFFS after Harold and Doris retired and sold up and was certainly renamed TOBY'S later. I first played at the old club in 1963 on the recommendation of my friend Noel Redding and was invited to provide the house band when the new club opened the following year. My bands, The Playboys and Take 5, played around 500 nights at Tofts between 1963 and 1968. Tofts Club, Folkestone

Miguel Maurice 2013

I am trying to find flyers, details for 13th July 1966 appearance at Toft's of Five Steps Beyond on that date. Were they supporting another act, do flyers etc exist? Any details, Thanks, Paul Email address: paul_quinton@talktalk.net

Paul Magellan

💬 Good luck hope someone finds this and you get a reply

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This is my site The 'Gerald that I built in a frenzy of excitement when I first moved to Folkestone sometime in '04. I had been a frequent visitor for a while before that but I am technically one of those DFLs you get nowadays. The site was a lot more dynamic with a calendar of events and voting for favourite places and things, + I hear it was a useful resource for those who were moving here. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only to Hythe) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as The town is becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. My name is not Gerald BTW, this comes from the name of a fake newspaper in an episode of Brasseye or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, + how there is a local newspaper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do contact me if you have something to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on the twitter.