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Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?

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Subject: Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?
From: Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:47:35 +0100
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In message <ZINJXBAOgHY1EwfT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Morris
<David@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>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.......

We have a way to go yet...Sovereign Brass was formed in 1987!
-- 
Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.
http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/sov/sov.htm


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