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  Can you help identify the people, the places, the date or the occasion?   Yorkley Onward Band  
 



 

 

     
 
A Forest Band
 
 
Courtesy of :
 Terry Willetts
     
 

Detail of the trophiesMany thanks to Harold Davis (ex Yorkley Onward Band) for identifying the players and for the following: "The Band is Yorkley Onward Band. Not sure of date or occasion. The shield is Boosey and Hawkes and would have been awarded to the band for their success in the
West of England contest probably at the Colston Hall Bristol".

Row 3: Fred Collins, Royston Brown, Russell Morse, Trevor Watkins, John
Buttson, John Thomas, Ken Nelmes, Ken Willetts, Roger Smith, Gordon Ambrey. .
Row 2: Bert Buttson (sec) Norman Morse, Jack Morse, Audrey Watts, Geoffrey
Birt, David Evans, David Price, Gerald Birt, Maurice Price (treas).
Row 1: Sam Akers, Gilbert Griffiths, Ian Watts, Graham Ward, Graham Watkins, Ted
Annetts(MD) David Nemes, Tom Willetts, Royston Pettiford, Jack Marshall.

Thanks to HSJ Warren for adding (Nov 2007): "..the chap on the extreme right in
civvies looks remarkably like the late Maurice Price the well known Lydney pianist".

 
   
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