Contents – List of posts (2011-2024)

• Aboriginal Peoples’ Brass Bands in Canada
• Alliance City Band (Ohio)
• Alton Towers – 1930’s, not a rollercoaster in sight
• Alternatives to marching & hazardous journeys
• An asylum band – though not brass!
• And now for something completely different….
• Anston Brass Band
• Anthony Yorath and the first Crystal Palace Gold Medal
• April Fools
• Band at the Rising Sun Inn
• Band from South Wales?
• Band minute books
• Bands of the Legion of Frontiersmen
• Bandstands
• Bandwagons – transports of delightful sounds
• Basic Brass Band History Books
• Basses of Coalburn Silver Band, The
• Bath Post Office Band
• Battersea Band Mystery, A
• Battersea Tent Mission Band
• Beatrice Pettit – a cornet soloist who thrived in ladies’ orchestras of the late 19th century
• Benefit concert, A
• Bentham Prize Brass Band.
• Besses in the Sparrow’s Nest
• Bolton Band mystery, A
• Bolton United Band, The
• Book: Another Maltese connection
• Book: Brass Bands & Processions in the Forest of Dean
• Book: Brass Bands of the British Isles – historical directory
• Book: Brass Bands of Warwickshire
• Book: British Brass Bands – historical directory
• Book: Earby Brass Band History
• Book: For the Love of Music
• Book: Heathfield Silver Band
• Book: History of Wells City Band
• Book: Maltese Wind Bands
• Book: Music & the British Military
• Book: Saint-Saëns and wind bands
• Book: Spa Brass – a History of Brass Bands in Harrogate
• Book: The Musical Salvationist
• Book: The Village Brass Band
• Books, books, books and more
• Bourton-on-the-Water Brass Band
• Bradford City Brass Band and Harry Grace
• Bramley Old Band
• Brass and tobacco
• Brass Band Archive Recordings
• Brass Band Audio Database
• Brass Band Cartoons
• Brass band concert programmes on postcards
• Brass Band Poems
• Brass Bands & Cornet Bands of the U.S.A.
• Brass bands and V.E. Day celebrations
• Brass bands in Africa – a brief introduction to a continent-wide topic
• Brass Bands of the World
• Brass bands of Boroughbridge, The
• Brass bands of Ireland
• Brass bands on screen
• Brass instruments and baldness
• Brass instruments and Victorian trade cards
• Brass on postage stamps
• Bratley Family Brass Band
• Bum Notes – a look at some brassy raspberries
• Byesville bands
• Cambridge Albion Band – six years of records
• Cambridge Albion Silver Band
• Cambridge Town Band 1927-1943
• Cannery Girls’ Band of Sheridan, Oregon, The
• Castle Howard Reformatory School Band
• Celebration in brass for International Women’s Day 2022, A
• Charles Ashby and Rushden Temperance Band
• Charles Godfrey Jnr. – the insult that lasted nine years
• Charles Heyn’s Company – cornets and xylophones
• Cheshire County Youth Brass Band (50+ years)
• Child prodigies in brass – a selection of vintage images of children who played brass instruments
• Chocolate military bands
• Chorlton cum Hardy Band
• Christmas 2021
• Circus bands – 1
• Circus bands – 2
• City of London Artillery Band
• Cleora Miller – touring the American mid-west with her trombone and sousaphone for thirty years
• Climb every mountain …
• Comic bands – Kazoo and Zobo (1)
• Comic Bands – Kazoo and Zobo (2)
• Concert programmes – a rapidly closing window into the music performed in the past
• Conductors’ batons of the past
• Cooking with Brass
• Cornet bands of the USA
• Cornet madam and the trombonist actress, The
• Cornet prize won by Joseph Hyde in 1861
• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases – so do brass instruments…
• Couple of character sketches, literally, A
• Crich Brass Band
• Crystal Palace and bands, The
• Curtain Falls – the end of St Hilda’s Band, The
• Cynicus and the Big Brass Band
• Daisy Squelch – cornet soloist and music hall star 
• Deanston Brass Band
• Deer Lodge Citizens Cornet Band
• Disney delights
• Douglas Colliery Prize Silver Band North Tour – July 1929, The
• Durham Miners’ Gala
• Easter, brass, bunnies & chicks
• Easy Way to Play Brass Instruments, The
• Eating people is wrong – blow a trombone instead
• Elworth Silver Band (Cheshire)
• Etchingham or Etchington Brass Band
• Excelsior!
• Explain masculine & feminine rhythms
• Family bands
• Fanfare of orphans, A
• Fighting at Home – civil defence bands
• First American band contest?, The
• First band broadcast?, The
• First National Brass Band Contest – 1860, The
• Flackwell Heath Silver Band
• Flockton Brass Band
• Four unknowns to puzzle over
• Frank Wright
• Fred, a tuba player with an unknown band
• Genealogy
• Gibsthwaite jugglers
• Glasgow Royal Blind Asylum Band
• Grimesthorpe Brass Band
• Grundisburgh Brass Band
• Hambledon Brass Band (Hampshire) – a tale of three bands, cricket origins, and Peter Warlock
• Hammersmith Borough Band
• Harold Price – Royal Engineers Band Sergeant
• Hassocks Men’s Rally Brass Band
• Hazel Gwinnup and the Six Royal Hussars
• Hello, Hello, Hello
• High and low pitch
• History of the Glynneath District Silver Band: 1888-1962
• Hot air and brass bands
• How many brass bands? 19,634!
• Iles and Mortimer Medals, The
• Illinois Band?
• Independent Cornet Band
• Intemperance bands
• Inverness – a look at its brass bands from the 1840’s to 1936
• James Ollerton’s Registration Card
• Jarrow Navvies’ Band, The
• Joseph Manton Smith
• Judith Potter’s Scrapbook
• Ladies and families – updated historical directories
• Ladies of Brass
• Ladies of the Lakes
• Lads of Kent Boys’ Brass Band, The
• Lamberhurst Brass Band – 1873 to 1934
• Le Roi d’Ys – Edouard Lalo
• Llangollen Town Band – Minutes 1925-1957
• Long and short of it, The
• Louverne Ladies’ Brass Band – fleeing France during WW1
• Lowestoft Jubilee Sports Contest 1887
• Lynn and Lynda – two ‘dainty’ brass musicians
• Maddern Family Band, The
• Maidenhead Town Silver Band
• Margate Wesleyan Mission Band
• Mary Simm’s Scrapbook
• Matrimony and Music
• Mirror, Mirror; two faces of the Norwich Co-op Band
• More brass band rules – from the USA in 1853
• More on the ladies
• More rules – Stand Band (Lancashire) 1828
• Morley Juvenile Excelsior Brass Band
• Morpeth Band Festival 1895 – almost the end of a great tradition
• Music of discipline and reform – the bands of children’s orphanages, industrial schools and asylums
• Music to roll along by
• Musical Jack Tars
• Musical postcards – how to get a tune through the mail
• Musical Prize Fight at Loftus, 1859, A
• Napoleon Bird’s piano marathon
• National Brass Band Championships – 1954
• Nationals in 1910, The
• Netheravon bands
• Nettie Goff – trombone soloist and minstrel actress
• New brass band research papers (4)
• New brass band research papers
• Oh, Listen to the Band – songs inspired by brass bands
• Original Music for Brass Band Contests
• Origins of brass band associations, The
• Orphanage band, An
• Pauper school band, A
• Penallta Colliery Prize Band
• Percussive thoughts
• Pictures of Youth – National Youth Brass Band
• Pig and the brass bands, The
• Pioneer of brass in the East – Sir Robert Hart’s Chinese brass band, A
• Police band cartoons
• Polka-Dot Ladies Band, A
• Poor trombonist, The
• Punishments
• Rabbits and antimacassars: raising money for band funds
• Redhill band – perhaps
• Researchers in the history of brass bands
• Researching the History of Brass Bands
• Rhodes Bleachworks Brass Band
• Richard Taylor (1867-1943) – bandmaster and trainer
• Riddings United March Book
• Roll up! Roll up! – 19th century circus and other professional bands in the British Isles
• Rothesay Brass Band – entertaining the excursionists fresh off the paddle-steamers on the Isle of Bute
• Rothwell & Rossini – an exploration of a manuscript score
• Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Bands
• St Patrick’s Day – a quiet celebration of the bands of Ireland’s past
• Salford Ironworks Band
• Scanned documents
• Scanned programmes and documents
• Scorton Hospital Brass Band
• Scottish Catholic Band from 1881, A
• Scots Wha Hae
• Scunthorpe Borough Boys’ Juvenile Band
• Sextet of bandsmen in a field, A
• Shifnal Band at the pub, A
• Shotts Foundry Brass Band
• Sightless but full of sound – blind band musicians of the past
• Some early brass band contests pictured
• South Street Mission Brass Band
• Souvenir of Grieg, A
• Square formation
• Stamford Brook Silver Band
• Sterling music
• Strange and head-scratching
• Support for the St Albans bootmakers on strike
• Sutton Scotney Brass Band and its instruments
• Test piece blues
• Thomas Raistrick – Champion Boy Cornetist
• Three bands in one – Eynesbury & St Neots
• Three Edwardian brass bands
• Tissue paper commemorative programmes & napkins
• Todmorden Old Brass Band
• Travelling by charabanc
• Tuba players and children
• Tunbridge Wells – the Corporation Band (1896-1902) and Matthew Marks
• Tyler Family Band 1843-1889, The
• Unknown bandsmen (1)
• Unknown bandsmen (2)
• Ups and Downs – the patterns of band engagements over the year
• Varteg Silver Band
• Victorian Rock Bands
• Vintage Brass Band Recordings
• Vintage contests and concerts
• West Carthage Fire Department Band and the disappearing dog
• West Creek Cornet Band
• West Wales Association of Brass Bands
• Westwood Colliery Band
• What did the Champions look like? – 50 years of National Brass Band Champions
• Wheatley Hill Colliery Band – the case of the altered photograph
• Where do all the old brass band instruments go?
• Which Rothwell Band?
• Widdington Brass Band, Essex
• Winning quartet, A
• Women and Brass
• Women Composers for Brass Band
• Women’s Work Exhibition Ladies’ Brass Band, The
• Worcester Brass Band, Massachusetts
• Words and Music – the Oxford University Press Brass Band
• Works brass band, The
• World’s Smallest Trombone, The
• Wylam Colliery – Rules of a band
• York Industrial School Boys’ Band
• Yorkshire military band in New Brunswick, Canada, A
• Young Oswaldtwistle cornetist, A