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  • Collection: Reepham Band

Front Row L to R :
Nancy Woods, Norma Hubbard,
Hazel Freestone, Pamela Reeder,
Brian Wright, Leslie Moy, Stella Riseborough, Daphne Barrow

Back Row L to R :
?, ?, ?, Reggie Seals, Gordon Frankland,
E. T. Ruffles, ?, Bernard Wright, Brian…

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.'

Not an EABBA…

Top photograph
St Andrews Hall, Norwich

Front row L to R : Eric Barrett, Billy Hatley, John Hall, Ray Platten, E T Ruffles, ? , Ray Betts, Ernie Moy

Middle row : Jimmy Secker, Michael Platten, Jennifer Ward, Valerie Allen, Wendy Ward,…

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…

St Andrews Hall, Norwich
Presentation being made to E. T. Ruffles.

(East Anglian Brass Band Festival 1954
Reepham Band won Class A)

E. T. Ruffles on the right with (L to R) W. Edwards, F. Lawson & D. Coles (or Colls?). Taken in Wellington Pier Gardens, Yarmouth.

E. T. Ruffles with, on his left, Sir Thomas and Lady Cook, possibly taken at Sennowe Park in the early 1930s.

Playing in the bandstand in Wellington Pier Gardens.

The band playing in Sparrow's Nest Gardens.

Group photograph outside the Band Hall including E. T. Ruffles, Gordon Frankland

E. T. Ruffles with members of Reepham Band in Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich

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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)

A group of at least three bands playing at what was possibly part of a final concert at an EABBA Band Festival

E. T. Ruffles conducting a group of at least three bands with a young audience in the top RH corner (possibly part of a final concert at an EABBA Band Festival)

Fakenham Band - identified by the distinctive jackets

The St John Ambulance Band, led by E. T. Ruffles, on parade through Sheringham.(includes Utting & Garfield, Reepham Band members)

E. T. Ruffles with Aylsham Fellowship Band, prize-winners at a Cambridge festival.

Newspaper cutting with brief history of Aylsham Silver Band on its 60th anniversary in 1988
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