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Choir c1924
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Choir Procession along Church Parade
It was a duty of the choir to process around town or at funerals of "worthies of the town".
This was taken about 1922-5 and the leader is Billy Ginns, with Dennis Ginns following near side.
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Back row (l-r) Walter Bates, Mr Ginns, Roy Geary, Leslie George, Billy Holloway.
Row 2 – May Garley, Mrs Tuson, Mr Ball, Harold Geary, Albert Thomas, Harold Clayton, Len Coleman, Stan Hodgkins, Alf Clark (organist), Ted Woolard, Cicely Bettles, Fred Edge, - Lilley,
John Scott (verger), Ivy Hodgkins, Mrs Langley.
Row 3 – Kit Smith, Maud Bishop, Audrey Annis, - - , K Smith, - - , Rev John Rowell (curate),
Rev Travers Stoney (Rector), Milly Rivet, Mrs Clayton (nee Jinny Rivet), Daisy Clark (nee Underwood), Mrs Grace Bates.
Row 4 – Ray Loasby, Ted Jolley, E Lord, G Matthews, H Dickens, - - , J Matthews, D Sugars, R Roddiss,
- -, Richard Deny, - Ekins,
Front - B Savage & R Savage
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1953 or 1954 - named by Margaret Smith (nee Weekley)
Back row: left to right. Billie Bettles, ??, Mr. Thomas, Walter Bates, Peter White, Stan Hodgkins, Mark Humphreys, Harold Geary, Harold Clayton, Gordon ?, Mr. Smith, Douglas ?, David Shortland, ??.
2nd row: Cyril Cave, (organist), Robert Wagstaff, Ruth Hodgkins, Anne Baines, Jackie Corbet, Jean Bates, Hazel Ellis, Cecily Langley, Mrs. Langley, Marion Weekley, Margaret Weekley, Helen Munday, Edith George, Lew Coleman, Ernest Robinson (Choirmaster).
3rd row: Audrey Annis, Grace Bates, Jen Clayton, Ivy Hodgkins, Rev. Geoffrey Shaw (Curate), Rev. Green (Rector), next, a past member of the choir, there for the occasion, Mrs. Kit Smith, Mrs. Edie Barnes, Mrs. Page, Celia Page.
Front row: Choir boys, John Corbet, Mark Tulley, Geoffrey Hodgkins, Graham Smith.
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The choir sang at the wedding of Peter Firm to Anne, daughter of Frank Willmer
(then choir master 1985)
(Back Row) Ben Trenchard, David Brandford, Robert Bates, Philip Maddams, Alan Rosser,
Reverend Alan Smith, Harry Green, David Robinson, Charlie Jones, Cyril Cave (organist),
Naomi Smith, Hilda Chettle, Edith Barnes, Doreen Dilley, Joan Walker, Monica Trenchard,
Freda Thompson, Ivy Hodgkins, Catherine Calder, Barbara Evelyn, Grace Bates,
Sylvia Brandford, Lilian Matthews, Jonathan Trenchard,
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Christmas 1990
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Christmas 1993
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Three members retire from the choir in 1994. Seated centre is Mrs Grace Bates.
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Christmas 1995
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Christmas 1998
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Choir boys c1957
(l-r) Ernie Robinson (choir master), David Robinson (still a
member), John Curson, Duncan McVarish, John Pentlow, Patrick McVarish and Rob Bates (still a member) (2009)
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Probably in the 1960s.
Tall man centre is Lewis Coleman, far right John Orritt
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Cynthia Watts & Pamela Tunn 1966
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The Choir at Elstow Abbey in 1978
Presentation of 'The Creation'
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