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Newlyn is a seaside town and fishing port on the shore of Mount’s Bay and forms a small conurbation with the neighbouring town of Penzance   Unknown formation date. 1845: Assembled at the Temperance Hotel at 10 o’clock, and marched in procession to the Church, preceded by the Newlyn Brass
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Nanpean is a village approximately 4 miles north-west of St Austell (Shown spelt as Nepear which we assume is an error)   A few mentions of Nanpean Band leads us to the conclusion that a brass band was formed there sometime around the middle of the 19th century. It is
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Nancledra is a village three miles south of St Ives and four miles north-northeast of Penzance.   1886: Nancledra Brass Band formed. (John Brush) 1903: Nancledra Brass Band active. (John Brush) 1907: Mr Tom Humphries, solo-cornet player in Nancledra Brass Band, returned from the Copper industry, U.S.A. Saturday. (26 December
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