National Brass Band Club ????

What happened to the National Brass Band Club ?
I recently found my 1964/65 membership card in the loft.
5/- (5 Shillings) annual subscription.
I remember we had a very nice metal lapel badge in the shape of a little blue lyre inscibed NBBC.
Is it still in operation ?

- Mr Wilx

 

Sounds a bit geeky lol, think it's the 'club' part of it.

However, if it was reformed I would not doubt join!

 

OH i remember that , i was a member in the late 70s early 80s, i have still got certificates for winning solo contest that they staged, i think at the time there was a lady called Evelyn Bray who was in charge, as i say i think thats right ,from the yorkshire area

 

Yes I was a member of this "club".Mrs Bray was a stalwart of Yorkshire banding...she was the POPE of banding and you didn t argue with Mrs B.

 

But the 'salt of the earth'.
If you needed a registration card sorted quickly, she was the one to sort it!
I still have my club tie.

 

She was "Poggies" Mum.

- Mr Wilx

 

Is that David Pogson..ex Dyke who I played alongside at Hepworth for many years ?

 

1965? Did you join the Brass Band Club on your 40th Birthday Ian?
Mr Malone
(aged 29)

 

Yes indeed, great fella, great player and great bandsman.

- Mr Wilx

 

40 Mentally probably, though my voice was high and my beard sparse !!

- Tweedle---

 

A bit more info here:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4670790269_f59e45aba6_z.jpg
From this page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03/4670790269/

http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/images/8_49a692a7dedef183657850/original.jpg
From this page:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/ashbydelazouch/gallery,401768.html

This has been discussed on tmp before:
http://www.themouthpiece.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18950
although the URL to the jpg is broken.

I think it would be a nice idea if such an organisation started again.

 

Me too.. I was on the committee with Mrs Evelyn Bray. A lovely woman, whom I still miss.

 

actually, sad to say... I STILL have the badge, and it's regularly worn at contests - though no-one's ever commented on it. lol

 

Well - I spotted one on ebay yesterday and put in a bid of 99p.(+£1.00 P&P)
It was a winning bid and the badge is winging it's way to me as I type.

It will feel very strange to see one again after all these years.

Like you I shall wear it with pride on certain occasions.
I just hope nobody comes chasing me for 40 years unpaid subs !!!

- Mr Wilx

 

In the 1950/60s the Yorkshire branch of the NBBC was run by Tom F. Atkinson who was the Leeds schools brass peri and who got all his pupils to sign up.
I seem to remember that there was a reduced sub rate for "Juniors"

- Mr Wilx