The Strollers

L-R Norm Cowie, Phil Barber, David Park, Dave Cuthbert, Pete Cuthbert and Gavin Dixon THE STROLLERS' One of the longest surviving and talented local groups of the Swingin' Sixties. For nearly six years they featured their original line-up. The group was formed by a set of school friends who each had an interest in music. They began with acoustic guitars and a snare drum borrowed from the local Church Lads Brigade and would play to anyone who was willing to listen. But their first 'major' gig was at a Women's Institute gathering which included tea and cakes, it was in the building which now houses Radio Humberside on Lord Roberts Road. The Strollers were all in their final year at Longcroft School and invited some of their school friends along to support them. The group had just learned to play the Beatles 1963 hit 'She Loves You' and a reporter from the Beverley Guardian, present at the gig, wrote an article which appeared in that newspaper the following week. In it he dubbed the Strollers sound the 'Beverley Beat'. The Strollers were raw but they were keen and that appearance gave them the 'bug'. They began to go for it in a big way convincing their parents to ... more...