Out of the Ordinary (A870) Tue, 11th Feb 2020 Viewing: 7 February 2020, 9am - 5pm 9 February 2020, 10am - 1pm 10 February 2020, 9am - 5pm 11 February 2020, from 9am Removal of Lots All lots should be removed by 5pm on Friday 21 February 2020. Selected lots remaining after this date will be removed to: Perry Removals, Chapel End, Broxted, Essex CM6 2BW. Removal will be at a cost of £20 per lot and storage will be charged at £2 per lot, per day. Lot 298 Estimate: £400 - £600 + Fees MIDDLE EARTH CLUB, MIDDLE EARTH CLUB, 1960s, a rare psychedelic poster for the Middle Earth Club titled 'A TRIP TO MIDDLE EARTH' with the names Marc Tracy and Paul Bennett included in the poster design, by Forposter design Printed by BSB ken 426, 50 x 76cm Middle Earth was a hippie club in London, in the mid-to-late 1960s. It was a successor to the UFO Club, which had closed down due to police pressure and the imprisonment of its founder, John Hopkins. Nights at Middle Earth were normally hosted and arranged by the DJ and promoter Jeff Dexter. Groups that played there included Pink Floyd, The Who, the Jimmy Page-era Yardbirds, Roy Harper, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, July, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, David Bowie's folk trio Feathers, The Move, The Pretty Things, Fairport Convention and Jefferson Airplane, Eric Burdon and Captain Beefheart. The Byrds also played here twice with Gram Parsons. The main groups playing on a regular basis were Soft Machine, Tomorrow, Sam Gopal's Dream, Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took, Social Deviants, the pre-Yes Mabel Greer's Toyshop and the Graham Bond Organisation who were a regular visitor and performer. Others included The Exploding Galaxy dance group, and The Tribe of the Sacred Mushroom, who, headed by Lin Darnton, had performed a play based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. John Peel was a disc jockey at the club on Saturday nights until mid-1968..