A brief summary of researches to date on the Ingatestone Brotherhood Silver Band, 1934 - c1959, based around the Congregational Church in Ingatestone village.
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1 Ingatestone Brass Band (active in the 1930s) Ingatestone Open Brotherhood Silver Band (active in the 1950s) http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc23a.htm#itoi Internet Bandsman's Everything Within (IBEW) – see website: http://www.ibew.org.uk/imenu7.htm Percy Hyde’s records on SEAX - Suggestions of connections to Non- Conformist religion: http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=25683 The band appears to have operated in the mid-1930s and again from 1946 up to 1959 (?). There is a newspaper report giving a competition result in 1958. See also Nichols/(Tytherleigh) p.49: “One post- war activity in which Jack did not get involved was the Brotherhood Band. This was organised by Walter Crouch and based at the Congregational (now United Reformed) Church. Apparently Walter, who had formed the band in 1934, was willing to take on members with or without musical experience. The band gave public performances (usually at The Club) and, at Christmas, played in the streets and visited local houses”. Boys’ Brigade, Congregational Church, Ingatestone- early 1940s (Photo: Unknown/Reynolds)
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Ingatestone Brass Band (active in the 1930s) Ingatestone Open Brotherhood Silver Band (active in the 1950s)
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc23a.htm#itoi
Internet Bandsman's Everything Within (IBEW) – see website:
http://www.ibew.org.uk/imenu7.htm
Percy Hyde’s records on SEAX - Suggestions of connections to Non-Conformist religion:
The band appears to have operated in the mid-1930s and again from 1946 up to 1959 (?). There is a newspaper report giving a competition result in 1958. See also Nichols/(Tytherleigh) p.49: “One post-war activity in which Jack did not get involved was the Brotherhood Band. This was organised by Walter Crouch and based at the Congregational (now United Reformed) Church. Apparently Walter, who had formed the band in 1934, was willing to take on members with or without musical experience. The band gave public performances (usually at The Club) and, at Christmas, played in the streets and visited local houses”.
Boys’ Brigade, Congregational Church, Ingatestone- early 1940s (Photo: Unknown/Reynolds)
United Reformed Church, Ingatestone – 2010 (Photo: RWF)
Ingatestone Open Brotherhood Silver Band playing an outdoor concert at Peacocks, Margaretting, Essex in the 1950s (Photo: Unknown/courtesy of the late “Seddy” Filby)
For Peacocks see Bettley/Pevsner p592, and Scarfe p136: “Peacocks is Regency, a stucco’d villa with portico that distracts the eye from the main road”.
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Peacocks, Margaretting and the park – May 2015 (Photos: RWF)
National Gardens Scheme/Essex: Open days at Peacocks in 2015: http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/find-a-garden/Garden.aspx?id=21913
“Blow up the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people and sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders; gather the children and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say: spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Spare they people, O Lord. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?” Joel 2, v 15-17/Henry Purcell 1659-1995, Full anthem Z10 (before 1679).
