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  A Table Canon     Among George Lloyd’s papers we have found a most unusual Christmas Carol, written in the form of a ‘table top double canon’ combined so that the sheet music is in the shape of a cross. It is performed by four singers standing or sitting in
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  Circa 1863: Blisland Temperance Band formed. (BBHD) 1866: Blisland Temperance Band’s first recorded engagement was at St Breward. (John Brush) 1872: “No Connection.” To the Editor of the Royal, Cornwall Gazette. Sic, Seeing in your last week’s issue that the St. Breward Temperance Society had just held its annual
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Calstock Brass Band
Calstock is a civil parish and a large village in southeast Cornwall on the River Tamar 6 miles southwest of Tavistock and 10 miles north of Plymouth     Circa 1858: Calstock Brass Band active. (John Brush) Possibly its formation date. 1859: Calstock Band played at Gunnislake, possible its first
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