(c’57-’58) Claude Wilkins (guitar / vocals), Chris Arkle (washboard), Chris Winters (guitar), and Mick Cranham (tea chest bass).
This Guildford skiffle band got together in ’57. The next year Johnny Kelly (lead guitar) joined as Arkle moved to snare drum. Cranham and Winters left and Les Owen came in on bass and Micky Lampard on Guitar. Missing the truly skiffle washboard sound Stan Newman joined late in ’58. One Roger ? was also a member of the band during Newman’s tenure.
Owen got to together with a few others to form the Crescendos in the ’60’s and was later joined in the band by Kelly. Newman sadly passed, at the age of 81, in 2021.
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