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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!

Articles
Title Hits
Flintstones (Oldham) 1986
Florida Beach 1872
Fly-B-Nites 2749
Focal Points (Rusholme) 1996
Food 1510
Foot Tappers 1707
Foresomes (Atherton) 2717
Formula Five 1909
Fortune Tellers (Salford) 2340
Four Blades (Sheffield) 2768
Four Escourts (Bury) 1649
Four Hits and a Miss (Chester) 1925
Four Just Men aka Just Four Men aka Wimple Winch 3859
Four Pennies (Blackburn) 8056
Four Suspects (Rochdale) 2471
Fourtones aka Ricky Young and The Fabulous Fourtones aka Ricky and Dane Young and The Fourtones 6486
Fourways 1998
Frank Lees Four 1023
Frank Yonco and the Everglades/Frank Yonco and the Texas Drifters 8863
Frankenstein & the Monsters (Sheffield) 3478
Frankie and the Strollers 1294
Franklin D and The Senators (Bolton) 1656
Fred and The Flintstone Five 1589
Freddie and The Dreamers - The Dreamers 18553
Freeways (Chorlton) 1564
Friday Brown - "I've got Friday on my mind" 5644
Fritz, Mike and Mo 2106
Fuzz 1690
Gary Rogers and the Vampires (North Staffs) 1900
Gay and the Guys 1585
Generation aka Jason's Generation (Salford) 1882
Gentle Pulse 1565
George and the Dragons 1358
Georgie Fame (Leigh) 32
Gerards Own 1211
Gerry Storme and the Falcons 2743
Gin House 2848
Gina and Romany Rye 2409
Gina and The Mario Three 2163
Glass Menagerie 13425
Glass Onion 2156
Go-Go aka Schmoe’s Corps (Chadderton) (2) 2485
Golden Rules 1614
Goliath 896
Gonx (Swinton) 1673
Good Guys 1762
Graduates aka Johnny and The Graduates - Oldham 2812
Grand Slam 1423
Grand Union aka Grand Union of Volk later known as Wild Thyme 1400
Grass Roots 231

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