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Brighouse & Rastrick Band : Conductors & Bandmasters

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Professional Conductors
Bandmaster / Resident Conductors

Professional Conductors

Those marked ‡ are Professional Conductors

Uriah Radcliffe ‡ [1800s]
William Holdsworth ‡ [1890S]
Edwin Swift ‡ – a cornet player [1890s]
Fairburn Rayner ‡ [1901-1902]
Arthur Oakes Pearce ‡ – a cornet player [1905-1912]
Geoffrey Thompson (Jeffrey) Bancroft ‡ [1909]
William (Willie) Wood ‡ [1916]
John Ambrose Greenwood ‡ – a cornet player [1918]
Fred Berry ‡ – a euphonium player [1924-1932]
William Halliwell ‡ – a harmonium / cornet player [1932-1939]
Noel Thorpe ‡ – a cornet player [1938-1940]
Fred Berry ‡ – a euphonium player [1940-1941]
Harry Mortimer ‡ – a cornet player [1942-1943]
Eric Walter John Ball ‡ – an organ / piano player [1944-1957]
William (Willie) Wood ‡ – a cornet player [1956-1957]
Alec Mortimer ‡ – a euphonium player [1958]
Trevor Curzon Walmsley ‡ – a cornet player [1958-1962]
Alec (Alex) Mortimer ‡ – a euphonium player [1961-1962]
John Thomas (Jack) Atherton ‡ – 1962 'National' contest only [1962]
Walter Barrow Hargreaves ‡ – a cornet player [1963-1973]
James Samuel Scott ‡ – a cornet player [1973-1975]
Maurice James Handford ‡ – a french horn player [1975-1977]
Derek M. Broadbent ‡ – a cornet player [1977]
George Edwin (Lt. col.) Evans ‡ – 1978 'National' contest only – - a cornet player [1978]
Geoffrey E. F. Brand ‡ – a trumpet player [1978-1979]
Walter Barrow Hargreaves ‡ – 1980 'Area' contest only – - a cornet player [1980]
Derek M. Broadbent ‡ – a cornet player [1980-1981]
James Samuel Scott ‡ – a cornet player [1981-1982]
James Michael Watson ‡ – a cornet / trumpet player [1983-1985]
Adrian Leaper ‡ [1986-1987]
Derek M. Broadbent ‡ – a cornet player [1987-1989]
Garry E. Cutt ‡ – a cornet player [1990]
Geoffrey E. F. Brand ‡ – a trumpet player [1990]
Roy Newsome ‡ – 1991 'Area' contest only – - a cornet / tenor horn player [1991]
Allan Withington ‡ – a cornet / trumpet player [1991-2002]
Peter Bassano ‡ – 2002 'British Open' only – - a trombone player [2002]
Major Ian D. McElligott ‡ – a trumpet player [2002-2004]
James Gourlay ‡ – a tuba player [2004-2006]
Major Ian D. McElligott ‡ – a trumpet player [2006]
Alan Morrison ‡ – a cornet / trumpet player [2006-2009]
Richard Evans ‡ – Brass in Concert contests 2006 / 2007 / 2009 / 2010 – - a cornet player [2006-2010]
Garry E. Cutt ‡ – 2009 'Area' contest only – - a cornet player [2009]
Allan Withington ‡ – 2009 'English National' contest only – - a cornet / trumpet player [2009]
Prof David Alan King ‡ – a cornet player [2009-]

Bandmaster / Resident Conductors

Those marked † are Conductors

George Taylor † [1880s]
H. Whitham † [1880s]
J. Jackson † [1880s]
William Hodgson † [1880s]
Willie Atkinson † – a cornet player [November 1888]
Walter Atkinson † [May 1889]
Laban Suthers † [October 1891]
Mr Bostock † [1890s]
Jerry Holdsworth † [1890s]
Fenton Renshaw Possibly † [1890s]
S. Whitaker † [1897]
Harry Hodgson Cornet / † [1911]
Angus Holden † – a cornet player [1909]
Joe Wood † – a tenor horn player – ? [1910]
Joseph Crawford Dyson † [1912-1914]
Joe Willie Wood † – a tenor horn player [1919-1920]
John Rhodes ? Booth † / – Treasurer in 1942 [1921]
G. M. Lingford † [1921]
E. F. Tattersall † [1926-1932]
Milnes Wood Assistant Conductor – a euphonium player [1926-1932]
John Womersley Assistant Conductor [1928]
Fred Berry † – a euphonium player [1932-1941]
Thomas Foster Atkinson † [1940s]
Milnes Wood † – a euphonium player [1932-1952]
Samuel Balmforth Wood † – a cornet / trumpet player [1947-1948]
Harry Tomkins † [1948]
John Harrison † – a cornet player [1951]
James Arthur Hickman † – a cornet player [1952-1957]
Jack Haigh † [1950s]
Dennis Carr † – a euphonium player [1960-1966]
Arthur O'Donnell † [1962-1963]
Peter Kitson † – a trombone / baritone player [1963-1966]
Kenneth G. Aiken-Jones † – a cornet player [1966-1967]
James Arthur Hickman † – a cornet player [1968-1972]
Harry S. Brennand † [1971-1972]
Derek M. Broadbent † – a cornet player [1973-1984]
Raymond K. (Ray) Farr † for several weeks only – a flugel horn player [1984]
Roy W. Curran † – a trumpet player [1984-1986]
Michael Leslie (Les) Beevers † – a BBb bass player [1989-1992]
Jeremy P. Wise † – a cornet player [1993-1994]
David Hirst † – a soprano cornet player [1995-2005]
Nigel E. Weeks † – a trombone player [2005-2006]
Phillip F. McCann † – a cornet player [2009]
Alexander William (Sandy) Smith † – a tenor horn player [2010-2011]

See Ernest Armitage, Herbert Armitage, Fred Berry, John Vincent Floyd Bottomley, George Percy Bunce, Brian Evans, Jack Goodall, David Richard Marshall, Herbert Wood and Milnes Wood

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