This was taken in the old West Hartlepool Corps Hall, Stockton Road.
The names of the band are given on the reverse. On the drum Mr Mockett, holding the flag is 'grandad' to Margaret Foster the donor, next to him Uncle Tom.
On the back row are cornets Alfie Horsley, Maurice Patterson, Neil Fenwick, Johnny Ryder
The front cornets are 'dad' Fothergill, Eric Smith, John Beattie, Arthur Dobson, Denny Fothergill, Charlie Cornforth, John Dunning, Jow Dunning, Chris Reeeves, Bill Scott and Norman Woodall
The trombones are Albert Keeys, Eddie Fothergill, Robbie Carter and bandmaster is Norman McKie
Donor : Margaret Foster
Location
There were corps in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.Hartlepool Corps opened in 1876 in Lumley Street, was later renamed Hartlepool Citadel Corps, and moved to a new hall in Durham Street which opened in May 1969.
West Hartlepool Corps, later renamed Hartlepool Temple Corps, had a hall in Stockton Street which was replaced by the current building on the site of the demolished Park Road Methodist Church in Park Road on the corner of Lansdowe Road.
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