Members of Yorkley Onward Band in 1925.
Row 3: 1 Bill Lee, 2 Wallace Watkins,
3 William Ellway, 4 William Akers, 5 Frank "Buller" Thomas,
6 Ivor Ellway, 7 Percy Evans, 8 Harold Hale, 9 Stan Willetts,
10 Roland Green, 11 Arthur Trafford.
Row 2: 1 (with drum) Will Watts, 2 Bert Jones, 3 Harold Jones, 4 George
Morse, 5 George Searle, 6 Tom Morse, 7 Sid Akers, 8 Enos Truman, 9 John
Jones, 10 Ernie Thomas.
Row
1: 1 (seated) Jack Jones, 2 Sam Akers, 3 Jim Truman, 4 Arnold Marshall,
5 (boy behind cup) Graham Watkins, 6 Horace Jones (Conductor), 7 Omer
Jones,
8 Albert Marshall, 9 Bert Williams, 10 Bert Nelmes.
Glenice
wrote (June 2007): "Band of Hope I believe a colliery silver band. The
young cornet player in the middle row is Graham Watkins - I believe he
was a relative of the Ellways roughly the same age as my brothers, as
my uncle Ivor Ellway in the back row 6th from the right emigrated to
the U.S.A. in 1930".
Thanks also to Graham Ward for help with the names.
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