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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) 5829
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2542
Abstracts 5475
Admirals 5920
Agents 3657
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6255
Alan Etchells 2501
Alan Haven 5551
Alan Prior 4358
Alan Vernon Set 3604
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6541
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 4067
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3376
Alchemists Stone 2729
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4191
Altitude 5427
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2567
Amber World 2815
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2544
Annie Haslam 4636
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2897
Answers (Little Hulton) 7091
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2917
Archangel 3327
Art 'n' Soul 2837
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4848
Art Nouveau 11587
Assassins (Lockstock) 2040
Atlanta Roots 5686
Atlantics (Burnley) 772
Atoms 1368
Attic 1843
Avengers 3856
Axis (Stockport) 6002
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5426
Barnaby Rudge 4826
Barry and the Horizons 2550
Basix 2804
Beat Boys 6606
Beat League 5022
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4320
Beatmakers 3040
Beatmakers (Bury) 2727
Beatones (Rochdale) 3705
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 18022
Big City Blues 4160
Big City Soul Band 5494
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 4073
Big Wheel 5103
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 3045

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