Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Bandsman1966 - names added to photo. I did a quick search in Goolge for Hammersmith Town Hall Brass Band Competition - 1959 and the site and info on the brassbandresults.co.uk site was found - Cambois Workmens & Pegswood Colliery band were also listed in the bands for this event. Added a bit of the info into the photo.

The young lad, bottom left corner as you look at the photo, has been bugging me as I am sure I have seen him before. Took a while but then it clicked - Bedlington Grammar School photo posted on Facebook group Bygone Bedlington and part of the comment was :- '.......... and Gordon was the talented young upstart from the fourth year.......'

@Bandsman1966 - added your list of names to the photo - check it out and see if I have them mapped on Ok.

Names added from Bansman1966's list

Added the info to the photo. @Bandsman1966 - do you know when, and for how long, Brentford Nylons, took over and ran the NethertonColliery Brass Band?

And a thout it was aanly Cockney's that dropped tha H's! - well spotted sir - NETERTON updated :-

CLs updates added

Added the names to the photo :-

Living in the Oval area of Bedlington the Free woods, and the bandstand, was our playground throughout the late 50s & early 60s. We used to camp close to the Bandstand and play in the river not far from the bandstand. The bandstand was used to pile up our belongings whilst we were built a dam across the river. The water was deeper on the Ha'penny wood side but with a dam making it deeper we could dive bomb in off the large flat rock surface on the Ha'penny side. That's the area, where we were camping one Friday, or Saturday night, and we (also YMCA people) encountered our first early morning Hello, Hello what you lot doing here then', from the police, please accompany us to the Top End police station. Naturally we were totally innocent (it was not us that had stole the car and left it not far from where we were camping) and released, after questioning, after about 3-4 hours.

Names added to photo :-

@Bandsman1966 - I'm guessing this set of names go with this photo?

3 names - George Parnaby, Dick Lane & ? Lane added by Alan Cumings off the Bedlington Remembered facebook site - Front Row Nos 6 & 7 + Middle Row No 3

No problem - I have time on my hands and will work my way through the photos and add numbers & names before I post them on the Facebook sites. I will then update this site when I think there is no more info to add from the Facebook sites.

@Bandsman1966 - would you like me to post these photos on the local Facebook sites :- Bedlington Remembered - Bygone Bedlington - Sixtownships & Barrington, Barnt' n memories and stuff!! to see if any members can name any of the bandsmen? When I post 'group' photos on the Facebook sites I add numbers, and the known names, to the photo. No problem if you don;t want them posted on those sites :-

Living in the Oval area of Bedlington the Free woods, and the bandstand, was our playground throughout the late 50s & early 60s. We used to camp close to the Bandstand and play in the river not far from the bandstand. The bandstand was used to pile up our belongings whilst we were built a dam across the river. The water was deeper on the Ha'penny wood side but with a dam making it deeper we could dive bomb in off the large flat rock surface on the Ha'penny side. That's the area, where we were camping one Friday, or Saturday night, and we (also YMCA people) encountered our first early morning Hello, Hello what you lot doing here then', from the police.

@Bandsman1966 I have added your 'Long shot....... 76(ish)' in a comment to Michael Percy on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook group site. If he replies I will update this post.

My wording may have confused this a bit. I should have said :- ......... but I wold say the location for the photo, with the band members, is the Bandstand in the Free Woods. I just posted the other pictures of the bandstand to prove my deduction, eat your heart out Poirot & Sherlock. Although we have never been able to find out the exact year the Free woods bandstand was demolished it was definitely before 1979 and thought to be around 69-70.

I suppose there could be other Bandstands of he same design but I would say the location for this photo is Bedlington Free Woods

This photo was also on the IBEW site and posted a copy in the Facebook group - Bedlington Remembered and a Michael Percy, with the help of his dad, supplied some names :-

@Bandsman1966 - have you checked out the http://www.ibew.org.uk/vbbp-uk.htm where I got the photo from ?