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    Besses o' th' Barn Band is an English brass band that has been in existence in the Besses o' th' Barn area of Whitefield, Greater Manchester since at...
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  • Besses o' th' Barn (/ˌbɛsɪz ət ˈbɑːrn/ BESS-iz ət BARN) is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at...
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    Brass Bands, New Orleans brass bands, Political Action Bands, Klezmer, and "DIY" Alternative / Radical Community Bands. Algiers Brass Band Besses o' th' Barn...
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  • Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. "Besses o' th' Barn Band". Besses o' th' Barn Band. Retrieved 17 August 2011. "Icons, a portrait of England...
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  • William Rimmer (music) (category Brass band composers)
    Owen at Besses o' th' Barn Band. His prowess on the instrument became well known, and he was engaged as a soloist by many of the best bands of the day...
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    dispensed charity from Heaton Hall. Over the centuries, hamlets grew at Besses o' th' Barn, Lily Hill, Four Lane Ends (now the junction around Moss Lane and...
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  • of its Sunday school. He was also secretary of the Besses o' th' Barn Band Company, a brass band, and was active in the Radcliffe Literary Society and...
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  • Alexander Owen (category Brass bands)
    the 21 bands at the national championships, gaining first prize with the Besses o' th' Barn Band and second place with the Rushden Temperance Band. In 1906...
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    Bury New Road and Bury Old Road at Besses o' th' Barn, an area of Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England. Besses United Reformed Church was built to serve...
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  • with the Besses o' th' Barn Band, where he played professionally for the next few years. After returning to Australia, he conducted community bands in cities...
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  • Goal!!! (1931) Ray Martin & His Orchestra – Blue Tango (1951) Besses o' th' Barn Band – Bradford (before 1914) Lightnin' Hopkins – Jail House Blues (1949)...
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  • Arthur Butterworth (category Brass band composers)
    volunteered for the village brass band who allocated him the trombone. As a teenager he played with the Besses o' th' Barn Band and started taking conducting...
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  • a Canadian television figure skating competition broadcast by CBC Besses o' th' Barn, an area within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury in Greater Manchester...
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  • French Horn from Ifor James and Michael Purton. He also joined the Besses o' th' Barn Band, later studying theory and composition at the Royal College of...
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    Charles Trussell (category Brass band composers)
    competitions in the region. In April 1907 Trussell hosted the prestigious Besses o' th' Barn Band from England as part of their world tour. Shortly after this, in...
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  • the Black Dyke Mills Band (1966–1977), Besses o 'th' Barn (1978–1985), Fairey Engineering Band (1986–1989) and the Sun Life Band (1989–1996). With these...
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    great-grandfather, Robert (Bob) Jackson, was a celebrated manager of the Besses othBarn brass band, of Whitefield, Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. Stanley...
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  • Broadwood of the London manufacturers John Broadwood & Sons. Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester, England, by this date...
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  • two concerts with the Besses o' th' Barn brass band, and played with various other bands including the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. In 1942 she became the...
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  • time the principal conductor of the famous Besses oth' Barn Brass Band, winning the 1978 BBC Brass Band of the Year Competition with them. He was known...
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    was leading his band 'The Rhythmic Blue Notes' on the accordion, as well as becoming a founder member of Besses o' th' Barn Brass Band on the trombone...
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    stations on the Manchester Metrolink line from Manchester to Bury, at Besses o' th' Barn on the Whitefield border to the north, Prestwich in the centre of...
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    The first Serbian dictionary is published by Vuk Karadžić. Besses o' th' Barn Brass Band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester in the north of England...
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    dirt, and grease, and by 1888 the route was eventually curtailed to Besses o' th' Barn. Electric trams were a common sight in early 20th century Salford...
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    June 2012 Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner 2004, pp. 679–680. Historic England, "Besses United Reformed Church, including all associated buildings on island site...
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  • Horsefield (died 1854), botanist and handloom weaver; born and lived in Besses o' th' Barn Howard Jacobson (born 1942), writer; born in Prestwich John Just (1797–1852)...
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    Radcliffe Bridge via Stand Lane was created in 1857 with toll houses at Besses o' th' Barn, Stand Lane, the junction of Dumers Lane and Manchester Road, on Bolton...
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    Ancoats (1861–65, demolished), Rusholme (1863, demolished) and the Besses o' th' Barn (1863) now United Reform church, all were Gothic in style. Waterhouse...
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    reopens". BBC News. Retrieved 30 May 2017. "Manchester Arena bombing: K-Pop band Blackpink pay on-stage tribute". BBC News. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 22 December...
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