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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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Brownsville Banned 9615
Bruce and The Spiders (Blackpool) 5647
Bruce Harris and the Cavaliers 1584
Bruff Boys (Preston) 1588
Buccaneers (Hayfield/New Mills) 1886
Bujjies / Tiger Tiger 3041
Burial 2557
Burnage Bugs 2298
Bushmen (Ashton-under-Lyne) 2203
Buttons (Swinton) 4075
Cabaret Five (Eccles) 2336
Cadillacs 1735
Carl Dene and The Escorts (Bury) 4379
Carnival 2062
Carol Kaye and the Dynachords 3023
Cathy and the Marksmen (Bolton 2048
Chalice 7111
Chancellors 2319
Chantelles 2230
Chapter 5 (Barrow in Furness) 818
Chapter Three (Sale) 1836
Chapters 3376
Chariots 5414
Chasers 7654
Cheshire Plains 1790
Cheshire Set (Heald Green/Swinton) 1758
Chosen Few 5136
Chris Nava Combo 4001
Chuckles 7260
Circuit 4055
Circus 1678
Citrons (Newton Health/Failsworth) 2318
Classical Gas 2267
Cleveland Fox (Bolton/Atherton) 4600
Cliff Bowes and The Arrows 3999
Clique (Darwen) 1745
Clyne Country Four 1538
Colours 2999
Con Brios (Salford) 2618
Concords (Knutsford) 1657
Concords (Leigh) 3403
Condours 2595
Confederates 5825
Construction Company 1605
Conteurs (Radcliffe) 2082
Corvettes 8799
Country Gentlemen 6680
Countrymen (Wigan) 1255
Crestas 2840
Crestas aka Dave Storme and The Crestas aka Johnny Peters and The Crestas 2225

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