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Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?

In article <1cc7992b.355f6e59@xxxxxxx>, SkemBand writes
>Our band, Skelmersdale Prize Band, was established in 1878, and has been
>actively contesting and entertaining ever since; it has never folded and had
>no breaks for wars etc., (being run by miners, farmers and dock-workers who
>were classed as having jobs vital for the war effort).
>
>We are in the process of compiling a history of the Band, and would like to
>know if there are any other UK bands that can lay claim to be longer
>established, with continuity throughout its history?
>
>We would be very interested to hear of any bands that have been going
>longer.......
>

Woodhouse Prize Band - founded 1853 - speaking as a former but not
founder member. There are records which show the band playing at the
opening of Beighton Railway Viaduct a couple of years previously, but
the criterion is *continuous existence*, so you're stuck with 1853.

Woodhouse, for those interested, is on the south side of Sheffield and
is formerly a mining area - although now it just merges into the
Sheffield metropolitan area, and all the pits have long gone.
-- 
David Morris
email: david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Year2000. Isn't that all hype by the brewers ?


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