So what ever happened to these bands…

In the early championship years Birdwell Brass and Leeds Model were strong contenders as well as Moderna Blanket Works, Butterfields Tank Works and YEWCO (Idle).

Champions

Whatever happened to champions in the lower sections such as Halifax Home Guard, Rawmarsh Prize or the two famous juniors bands from Grimethorpe and Black Dyke – both Third Section winners in the 1960s.

Names to conjure with such as Rowntree Cocoa Works, Scapegoat Hill, Ebor Excelsior, Castleford New Subscription...4BR

Names to conjure

Names to conjure with such as Rowntree Cocoa Works, Scapegoat Hill, Ebor Excelsior, Castleford New Subscription, Hessle British Legion and Upton Colliery Workspeople and Hall Royd Methodist Junior.

All gone now, but not quite forgotten…