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Groups

It was a time when almost every street had a group! Every junior school class would have group members - my own pre-11 plus class had four guys that I know of that ended up in groups.
Travelling to bookings was not the easiest of things.  If there was a car owner in the family or street, you could be lucky and travel in style.  Otherwise, you took the gear on the bus or, as in my group's early days, on a handcart to local bookings.

The site does not, of course, list all the local groups.  We could make a list as some sites do but we prefer the site to be a read.  A read that reflects such incredible times.

Enoy, comment and add!

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59th Street Bridge (Burnley, Nelson and Colne) 5750
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2503
Abstracts 5407
Admirals 5854
Agents 3591
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6190
Alan Etchells 2457
Alan Haven 5445
Alan Prior 4299
Alan Vernon Set 3548
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6433
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 4025
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3327
Alchemists Stone 2687
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4138
Altitude 5340
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2524
Amber World 2750
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2506
Annie Haslam 4529
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2826
Answers (Little Hulton) 6960
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2862
Archangel 3257
Art 'n' Soul 2792
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4774
Art Nouveau 11459
Assassins (Lockstock) 2001
Atlanta Roots 5613
Atlantics (Burnley) 729
Atoms 1327
Attic 1802
Avengers 3775
Axis (Stockport) 5926
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5349
Barnaby Rudge 4739
Barry and the Horizons 2514
Basix 2756
Beat Boys 6516
Beat League 4918
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4257
Beatmakers 3006
Beatmakers (Bury) 2691
Beatones (Rochdale) 3635
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 17842
Big City Blues 4095
Big City Soul Band 5410
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 3999
Big Wheel 5039
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 2995

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