Old Photographs: Music, dancing and Drama
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Eddie Purnell’s Band performing at a dance at the Assembly Hall of the works of the Royal Enfield company at Westwood during or just after the Second World War. Enfield moved into redundant underground quarries to produce gun sights and their workers lived in accommodation above ground, including a restaurant and communal facilities where dances were the main form of entertainment.
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Bradford on Avon “Spare Parts” Concert Party members 1925 to 1926 were amateurs who put on musical and comic entertainment.
Back row: E. Wicks, S. Cane, R. Turtell; front row: H. Holborn, S. Walton, H. Morris, V. Bray.
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Bradford’s Amateur Brass Band became the Spencer Moulton company band early in the 20th century. The bass drum in the photograph (on the right) is now on display in the Museum.
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Members of the Congregational Church in Holt who had been putting on a musical entertainment in the school room of the church, in about 1920. Seated in the centre is Jim Ladd and his sisters Gertrude and Isobel are also in the picture.
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