The Rendezvous Club, Ashburton hall, Ashburton Road, Southsea

The Ashburton Hall in Ashburton Road southsea was church hall but used by many locals including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was there on January 9th 1926 2nd September 1949 The Rendezvous Club, at the Ashburton Hall, was run by Ernie Sears and Ivor Moore, originally in a church hall in Ashburton Road, Southsea in August 1960, then spells on South Parade Pier, St Paul's Road, the Railway Hotel, Fratton and the Dockyard Club in Onslow Road, Southsea. The Rendezvous was Pompey's first regular Saturday night jazz club, featuring mainly national and local ‘Trad' acts like the Riverside Jazzmen, the Back O'Town Syncopators, the Bourbon Street Six, Rodney Foster's Jazzmen or the bands of Kid Martyn and Keith Smith. February 1964, Ernie Sears re-opened the Rendezvous at the Oddfellows Hall, in Kingston Road. 15th Octopber 1960 28th June 1961 27th September 1961 4th April 1962 11tth July 1962 14th November 1962 The Congregational Church and Sunday School can be see at the top end of Ashburton Road That same corner of Ashburton Road as it is today

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