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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) 5815
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2536
Abstracts 5465
Admirals 5905
Agents 3643
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6238
Alan Etchells 2491
Alan Haven 5527
Alan Prior 4341
Alan Vernon Set 3596
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6501
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 4058
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3364
Alchemists Stone 2722
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4182
Altitude 5415
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2558
Amber World 2795
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2534
Annie Haslam 4623
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2883
Answers (Little Hulton) 7060
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2905
Archangel 3311
Art 'n' Soul 2827
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4815
Art Nouveau 11564
Assassins (Lockstock) 2031
Atlanta Roots 5675
Atlantics (Burnley) 765
Atoms 1359
Attic 1833
Avengers 3840
Axis (Stockport) 5990
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5415
Barnaby Rudge 4806
Barry and the Horizons 2541
Basix 2795
Beat Boys 6591
Beat League 4997
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4309
Beatmakers 3032
Beatmakers (Bury) 2718
Beatones (Rochdale) 3695
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 17991
Big City Blues 4138
Big City Soul Band 5472
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 4059
Big Wheel 5092
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 3033

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