Accidental History: Glemsford Band
While I was searching the Foxearth pages for some references to Glemsford Fair, I also "bumped" into a couple of references to Glemsford Band.
This interested me because, a little while ago a correspondent was asking me about the Band and I had to say that, apart from a occasional appearances in the Log Book, and in "Glorious Glemsford", I could find nothing.
So: in 1894, this letter appeared in the Bury Free Press:
August 4th 1894
Letters to the Editor.
Sir, I have been looking at the bill concerning the Horticultural Show at Glemsford and am surprised to find Haverhill band has been engaged instead of preference to our own band , etc etc. As the matter stands now the money will be given to "foreigners" who neither know or care whether the men are starving or not. Glemsford band is comprised of hard working men, just now most of the men have been working short time and the money which is their lawful right would come as a great boon to them, etc etc.
Yours truly,
Pro Bono Publico.
Fascinating in so many ways, not least the comment about short time working, but also the signature - cf the School Seal, and also Haverhill town council.
And then, a little later in the same year, this appeared:
November 24th 1894
On Friday evening a public tea organized by the Glemsford Band took place at the Plough Inn, Glemsford when about 61 people responded to invitations, after full justice was done to "good things" a "free and easy" meeting took place. 1st item on the programme was an overture entitled "the sleep of Dianna" given by the Band in a pleasing style, Mr Lawrence gave a song "muddled and mixed", Mr Leggett gave "after the fall", G.Crick gave "simple little pimple", David Ward of Foxearth gave the "educated bloke" "Bush Ranger in Ausrtralia" by C. Twinn, a duet by Middleditch and Twinn "old miller", C.Sore "mona, Miss M. Twinn "a soldier minstrel", E. Sore gave "swinging to and fro", the chairman "strolling in the sands" and "mother kissed me", Mr E. Game, "the club house", Mr W. Farrance "e dunno where ee are", Mr Eli Watkinson "when Jone's ale was new", Mr Sore gave "success to the football club". The band played the National Anthem and all dispersed home.
I just love this sort of serendipitous discovery!
Of course, the Band is also referred to in passing in one of Emma Savage's letters to Minnie Brown:
www.glemsford.org.uk/05brownletter191201.html
but they don't show up in such a good light there.
There must be more references, surely ...?
Steve Clarke
This interested me because, a little while ago a correspondent was asking me about the Band and I had to say that, apart from a occasional appearances in the Log Book, and in "Glorious Glemsford", I could find nothing.
So: in 1894, this letter appeared in the Bury Free Press:
August 4th 1894
Letters to the Editor.
Sir, I have been looking at the bill concerning the Horticultural Show at Glemsford and am surprised to find Haverhill band has been engaged instead of preference to our own band , etc etc. As the matter stands now the money will be given to "foreigners" who neither know or care whether the men are starving or not. Glemsford band is comprised of hard working men, just now most of the men have been working short time and the money which is their lawful right would come as a great boon to them, etc etc.
Yours truly,
Pro Bono Publico.
Fascinating in so many ways, not least the comment about short time working, but also the signature - cf the School Seal, and also Haverhill town council.
And then, a little later in the same year, this appeared:
November 24th 1894
On Friday evening a public tea organized by the Glemsford Band took place at the Plough Inn, Glemsford when about 61 people responded to invitations, after full justice was done to "good things" a "free and easy" meeting took place. 1st item on the programme was an overture entitled "the sleep of Dianna" given by the Band in a pleasing style, Mr Lawrence gave a song "muddled and mixed", Mr Leggett gave "after the fall", G.Crick gave "simple little pimple", David Ward of Foxearth gave the "educated bloke" "Bush Ranger in Ausrtralia" by C. Twinn, a duet by Middleditch and Twinn "old miller", C.Sore "mona, Miss M. Twinn "a soldier minstrel", E. Sore gave "swinging to and fro", the chairman "strolling in the sands" and "mother kissed me", Mr E. Game, "the club house", Mr W. Farrance "e dunno where ee are", Mr Eli Watkinson "when Jone's ale was new", Mr Sore gave "success to the football club". The band played the National Anthem and all dispersed home.
I just love this sort of serendipitous discovery!
Of course, the Band is also referred to in passing in one of Emma Savage's letters to Minnie Brown:
www.glemsford.org.uk/05brownletter191201.html
but they don't show up in such a good light there.
There must be more references, surely ...?
Steve Clarke
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