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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
Fly-B-Nites 2661
Focal Points (Rusholme) 1910
Food 1458
Foot Tappers 1640
Foresomes (Atherton) 2656
Formula Five 1840
Fortune Tellers (Salford) 2266
Four Blades (Sheffield) 2674
Four Escourts (Bury) 1589
Four Hits and a Miss (Chester) 1827
Four Just Men aka Just Four Men aka Wimple Winch 3697
Four Pennies (Blackburn) 7865
Four Suspects (Rochdale) 2420
Fourtones aka Ricky Young and The Fabulous Fourtones aka Ricky and Dane Young and The Fourtones 6344
Fourways 1946
Frank Lees Four 972
Frank Yonco and the Everglades/Frank Yonco and the Texas Drifters 8579
Frankenstein & the Monsters (Sheffield) 3383
Frankie and the Strollers 1247
Franklin D and The Senators (Bolton) 1603
Fred and The Flintstone Five 1521
Freddie and The Dreamers - The Dreamers 18078
Freeways (Chorlton) 1495
Friday Brown - "I've got Friday on my mind" 5506
Fritz, Mike and Mo 2028
Fuzz 1600
Gary Rogers and the Vampires (North Staffs) 1834
Gay and the Guys 1524
Generation aka Jason's Generation (Salford) 1776
Gentle Pulse 1485
George and the Dragons 1296
Gerards Own 1135
Gerry Storme and the Falcons 2656
Gin House 2740
Gina and Romany Rye 2336
Gina and The Mario Three 2102
Glass Menagerie 13152
Glass Onion 2083
Go-Go aka Schmoe’s Corps (Chadderton) (2) 2419
Golden Rules 1532
Goliath 838
Gonx (Swinton) 1616
Good Guys 1661
Graduates aka Johnny and The Graduates - Oldham 2702
Grand Slam 1362
Grand Union aka Grand Union of Volk later known as Wild Thyme 1334
Grass Roots 135
Grave Diggers 1806
Gravy Train 3305
Greasy Bear 9063

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