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Lydbrook Onward Silver Band
Lydbrook Onward Silver Band
Row
3: 1 Arthur Matthews , 2 , 3, 4.
Row 2:
1 W Smith, 2 , 3, 4 Alfred Lewis , 5, 6 Albert Matthews, 7 , 8 Neville Barnett, 9 , 10 .
Row 1: 1 , 2 Bill Penn, 3 Maynard Childs (conductor),
4, 5, 6.
Gavin added (Sept 2007): "Maynard Childs was Gavin's mum's uncle. Maynard was known in the family as 'uncle Effy'".
Joanne Lewis added
(Sept 2007): "My great grandfather Alfred
Lewis (1892-1979) of Hillside Cottage, Upper Lydbrook was a euphonium
player and was the treasurer of the Band in 1932".
Thanks to Reuben Reeve who added (Sept 2007): "This picture was taken at The Beeches, Upper Lydbrook. It is on the lawn. I grew up at this house, my father bought it from the Coal Board in 1964. This was formerly the house of the managers of Waterloo Pit".
A very similar photo appears in "The Musical Tradition of Dean Volume 1" by Maurice Bent, 1997, pub. by M. V.Bent publishing.
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