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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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Bruce and The Spiders (Blackpool) 5517
Bruce Harris and the Cavaliers 1524
Bruff Boys (Preston) 1537
Buccaneers (Hayfield/New Mills) 1818
Bujjies / Tiger Tiger 2915
Burial 2501
Burnage Bugs 2223
Bushmen (Ashton-under-Lyne) 2143
Buttons (Swinton) 3970
Cabaret Five (Eccles) 2272
Cadillacs 1684
Carl Dene and The Escorts (Bury) 4271
Carnival 2008
Carol Kaye and the Dynachords 2929
Cathy and the Marksmen (Bolton 1992
Chalice 6992
Chancellors 2266
Chantelles 2153
Chapter 5 (Barrow in Furness) 759
Chapter Three (Sale) 1785
Chapters 3257
Chariots 5255
Chasers 7509
Cheshire Plains 1730
Cheshire Set (Heald Green/Swinton) 1709
Chosen Few 5050
Chris Nava Combo 3920
Chuckles 7136
Circuit 3940
Circus 1624
Citrons (Newton Health/Failsworth) 2237
Classical Gas 2203
Cleveland Fox (Bolton/Atherton) 4486
Cliff Bowes and The Arrows 3915
Clique (Darwen) 1679
Clyne Country Four 1485
Colours 2897
Con Brios (Salford) 2525
Concords (Knutsford) 1595
Concords (Leigh) 3303
Condours 2540
Confederates 5739
Construction Company 1551
Conteurs (Radcliffe) 1994
Corvettes 8673
Country Gentlemen 6467
Countrymen (Wigan) 1192
Crestas 2705
Crestas aka Dave Storme and The Crestas aka Johnny Peters and The Crestas 2140
Crooks Brown Band 2932

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