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St Gennys is a coastal civil parish and small settlement about seven miles southwest of Bude   1907 – March: St Gennys Brass Band formed by schoolmaster A Cooke. (4barsrest article / JB) 1907: A Cooke, St Gennys Brass Band MD. (Post & Weekly News 1st March 2007) 1907: St
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St Austell Brass Bands
1837: “St Austell [Amateur Brass Band]. It gives us much pleasure to announce that several young men of this town have formed themselves into an amateur Brass Band, under the able tuition of Mr Colless, professor of music from Jersey, whose efforts to instruct them seem to be crowned with
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Unknown formation date. Pendeen is a village and ecclesiastical parish 3 miles north-northeast of St Just and 7 miles west of Penzance Pendeen Band 1854 (Photo: unknown) 1880: On Monday last an entertainment, consisting of readings, recitations and instrumental music by the Pendeen Band, was given in the rooms of
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Tywardreath is a small hilltop village about 3 miles north west of Fowey   Unknown formation date. 1862: Tywardreath Cottage Gardening Society. The weather was favourable, and the attendance was good. The Brass Band of the St Blazey Volunteer Artillery attended, as well as the Drum and Fife Band of
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Sticker Brass Band
We do not know when Sticker Brass Band was formed. 1860s: Sticker Brass Band active. (John Brush) “The teachers and scholars assembled at the Wesleyan Chapel [probably Tresillian], where a procession was formed, headed by the Sticker Brass Band.” (4th of August 1870 – West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser) 1872:
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