Crowded giant marquee at Sennowe Park (the home of Sir Thomas Cook, at one time president of the EABBA) in the early 1930s. Probably one of the early East Anglian Brass Band Association's Contests.
A photocopy of a newspaper cutting showing a crowded Market Place in the 1920s or early 1930s. A personal suggestion is that is part of a Reepham Annual Band Festival; there are at least three lots of brass band members in uniform amongst the crowd…
Reepham Brass Band taking part in a contest to raise funds for N.A.N.S.A. in the year of the disabled.
Notice at the front of the stage states :-
'A charity entertainments contest featuring 18 brass bands from all over East Anglia.'
St Andrews Hall, Norwich East Anglian Brass Band Contest 1954 Class A Prizewinners ? In 1954 Reepham Band was first in Class A, with Aylsham & District 2nd & Norwich Lads Club 3rd. The bass drum carries the Norwich Lads Club logo. At least…
E. T. Ruffles leading massed group of bandsmen. Several bands represented at the opening rally of an EABBA festival in Yarmouth. (Film advertised is Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton & Clark Gable, first released in Europe in 1936)