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Credit Credit to my father for collecting and adding information. A. B (Biff) Smith 1933-1999

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Credit to my father for collecting and adding information. A. B (Biff) Smith 1933-1999

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Netherton Colliery Band

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Ah, now, if you compare the names from the "earlier" pic I see the 2 young lads #'s 26/7  named as Hutton & Clark, on this pic #2 and #9 a few years older.....we're (mostly you) are starting to pin this timeframe down.

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2 hours ago, Bandsman1966 said:

Ah, now, if you compare the names from the "earlier" pic I see the 2 young lads #'s 26/7  named as Hutton & Clark, on this pic #2 and #9 a few years older.....we're (mostly you) are starting to pin this timeframe down.

I started looking at that this afternoon. I copied your list of names from 1922, 29 & 32 to see what I could match up. 

I would imagine that any miner, that was a musician, was  loyal to the pit he worked at and although I couldn't prove it I would be guessing that in the 20's & 30's when all the Bedlingtonshire pits were in production the miners wouldn't have had to travel to a pit outside the area they lived.  

I can also image that most bands had many extra members spread over the 3 shifts and it it would be costly for anyone to miss a normal, or weekend, shift so it would be unusual for the same people to be competing in every competition :-

 

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