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Summer days with bands in the park!

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:58:38 GMT

In this photograph are some of the members of the Lightcliffe Drum and Bugle Corps entertaining shoppers as they go about their Christmas shopping in December 1987.

Entertaining Brighouse at Christmas time

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:43:50 GMT

I wonder how many readers can recall sitting out in the summer sun watching and listening to a brass band playing in the bandstand in Rydings Park.

Marching for St George’s Day

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:24:45 GMT

With St George’s Day having been celebrated last weekend at the traditional parade, many young people taking part would have had their first experience of marching.  I remember my first time at a march was at a Whit Friday procession of witness in Dukinfield in Greater Manchester back in the early 1960s when I was a young member of the Clifton and Lightcliffe band.