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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) 5715
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2477
Abstracts 5362
Admirals 5807
Agents 3559
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6154
Alan Etchells 2426
Alan Haven 5361
Alan Prior 4258
Alan Vernon Set 3511
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6377
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 3989
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3299
Alchemists Stone 2661
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4103
Altitude 5301
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2504
Amber World 2705
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2483
Annie Haslam 4472
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2788
Answers (Little Hulton) 6877
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2837
Archangel 3225
Art 'n' Soul 2766
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4735
Art Nouveau 11373
Assassins (Lockstock) 1970
Atlanta Roots 5567
Atlantics (Burnley) 696
Atoms 1304
Attic 1777
Avengers 3729
Axis (Stockport) 5884
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5284
Barnaby Rudge 4682
Barry and the Horizons 2489
Basix 2734
Beat Boys 6399
Beat League 4865
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4219
Beatmakers 2978
Beatmakers (Bury) 2670
Beatones (Rochdale) 3584
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 17719
Big City Blues 4067
Big City Soul Band 5359
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 3944
Big Wheel 4996
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 2966

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