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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) 5697
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2467
Abstracts 5330
Admirals 5781
Agents 3530
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6120
Alan Etchells 2414
Alan Haven 5332
Alan Prior 4245
Alan Vernon Set 3496
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6358
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 3936
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3281
Alchemists Stone 2651
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4087
Altitude 5279
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2495
Amber World 2667
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2473
Annie Haslam 4445
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2762
Answers (Little Hulton) 6848
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2828
Archangel 3213
Art 'n' Soul 2753
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4719
Art Nouveau 11336
Assassins (Lockstock) 1961
Atlanta Roots 5550
Atlantics (Burnley) 679
Atoms 1293
Attic 1767
Avengers 3700
Axis (Stockport) 5860
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5249
Barnaby Rudge 4632
Barry and the Horizons 2463
Basix 2720
Beat Boys 6355
Beat League 4841
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4199
Beatmakers 2966
Beatmakers (Bury) 2658
Beatones (Rochdale) 3559
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 17653
Big City Blues 4048
Big City Soul Band 5338
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 3931
Big Wheel 4959
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 2952

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