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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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59th Street Bridge (Burnley, Nelson and Colne) 5684
Absorbers (Nelson/Colne) 2457
Abstracts 5308
Admirals 5768
Agents 3506
Al Ritchie and the Invaders 6103
Alan Etchells 2406
Alan Haven 5305
Alan Prior 4225
Alan Vernon Set 3484
Albert Hilton and the Hotels (Rusholme) 6341
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias 3925
Alby and The Sorrals (Liverpool) 3262
Alchemists Stone 2640
All-Blacks (Droylesden/Audenshaw) 4071
Altitude 5259
Ambassadors (Glossop) 2487
Amber World 2651
Angels (Littleborough, near Rochdale) 2462
Annie Haslam 4422
Annie Haslam (Bolton) 2748
Answers (Little Hulton) 6811
Apex Jazz Band (Rochdale) 2819
Archangel 3198
Art 'n' Soul 2746
Art 'n' Soul And The Wickeds (Oldham) 4704
Art Nouveau 11288
Assassins (Lockstock) 1955
Atlanta Roots 5529
Atlantics (Burnley) 668
Atoms 1283
Attic 1758
Avengers 3667
Axis (Stockport) 5837
Barclay James Harvest (Oldham) 5225
Barnaby Rudge 4603
Barry and the Horizons 2452
Basix 2708
Beat Boys 6323
Beat League 4821
Beat Street Runners (Hadfield) 4182
Beatmakers 2954
Beatmakers (Bury) 2650
Beatones (Rochdale) 3546
Bernard Herrmann and the N.D.O. 17584
Big City Blues 4036
Big City Soul Band 5311
Big Sound aka Fat Sound 3910
Big Wheel 4939
Billy Atom and the Fallouts (Barnoldswick) 2944

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