Barbara was one of the eight girls on my first NYBBGB course at Weymouth in 1961 MD Eric Ball. She was Barbara Chew then and came from Dorchester in...
I've just recalled also that when I joined Leeds Model Band as a lad in 1960 there was a solitary girl in the band called Delia Hodgson on first horn...
When I did my first course for the NYBBGB in 1961 we had a hundred lads and about eight girls. The ratio remained about the same up to my leaving in...
1960 - 1963: Leeds Model Band (Solo EEb Bass)<br>
1961 - 1964: Yorkshire Schools Band (Solo EEb Bass) <br>
1961 - 1964: NYBBGB (Principal EEb twice)<br>
1963 - 1971: Yorkshire Imperial (Solo EEb Bass) (with brief flirtations at B&R and Dyke)<br>
1971 - 1989: No Brass Bands,
1971 - 2002 Ran Professional Show Band.<br>
1986 - 1996 Senior Sousa dep at Sheps Banjo Boys (When Steve Butler not available)<br>
1989 - 2008: Kippax Band (2nd EEb Bass)<br>
2009 - Retired from playing <br>
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