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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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Black Arrows (Bury) 3242
Black Cat Bones 3014
Black Cat Bones #2 2869
Black Stan Blues Band 2232
Black Velvets 4765
Blackjaks 2557
Blackwatch 2285
Blades (Blackpool) 5403
Blood Band 2160
Blue Angels 2401
Blue Angels 2 2114
Blue Chips 2180
Blue Light 1881
Blue Lords 2068
Blue Rondos 6666
Bluedays 1914
Blues Action 2249
Blues Busters 1959
Blues Set 2210
Blues Syndicate 3340
Blues Vendors 2777
Bluesbusters 1676
Bo Kelly and The Legends 4280
Bo-Rayners (Bury) 2798
Boadicea (Rochdale) 2020
Bob Atkinson and the Vikings (Barrow in Furness) 379
Bobby and the Blue Diamonds 7704
Bobby Dell and the Dellstars 8061
Bobby Laine and The Confederates (Cheadle Hulme) 3294
Bobcats 2263
Bog Stompers (Wilmslow) 2703
Boomerangs 2374
Boris and the Dansaks (Accrington) 1725
Boscombe Downbeats (Rusholme) 861
Boston Sect 1835
Boston T Party 1629
Bouncers 2091
Bourbon Street 2103
BoWeevils 2180
Boydells Vocal Group 2313
Boys 2174
Boys of Chavington (Urmston) 2237
Bravados (Salford) 1815
Break-Thru (Didsbury) 1635
Breakers Showgroup 3325
Brent Crude and the Disley Playboys 1858
Brent Rodgers and The Druids (Oldham) 2813
Brian Jay and the All-Star Banjo Band 1378
Bridgebeats (Stalybridge) 6083
Brownsville Banned 9379

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