Date unknown but probably mid to late 1940s and the image is taken at The Rink.
Brass instruments from left; Albert Butler, Arthur Brown, Cliff Linley, Tommy Lough, Alan Snowden
Saxaphones from left: Johnny Whitfield, Bob Thompson, , Jackie Farrar, Jackie Walker, Alf Boddy, Bill Watson.
Pianist is Harold Marsden, bass Bill Woodhouse and on the drums Tom and Les Loynes
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Location
The Queen's Skating Rink was built in Clarence Road in 1910, at a time when roller skating was popular. It later became the Queens Rink Ballroom, affectionately known as 'the Rink'.
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