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Mr Randall was leader of the Band - 1893 advert
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Mr James W Randall lived at Kimbolton Road, Higham Ferrers. He was born in 1870 at Higham, the son of William Randall, a clicker by trade, and Alice. William and Alice were living with her widowed mother, Matilda Sargent, her father having died.
James was teaching by the time he was 20 years old.
An 1893 advert tells he was a teacher of the violin, and he visited Kettering, Rushden, Wellingborough and Thrapston weekly, and would also supply instruments of all kinds.
He was also leader of the orchestra that played for the Rushden Choral Society, and he took care of the bookings, to give concerts, or to play at dances.
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