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BYKER & ST PETER'S WORKING MENS CLUB 1970's BRITAIN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.

Preteen young girl in Drum Majorettes costume with her mother who is eating a take away fish and chip meal out of a newspaper. <br />
Michelle Gosling (nee Purvis) writes: I would have been four or five years old in the photo. <br />
My Mam was called Doreen Purvis and she would have been 37 years old. I was a member of the High Heaton Fusiliers juvenile jazz band. We lived in Walker; my two older cousins were already in the High Heaton Fusiliers, so that’s why I joined that band. I am wearing the uniform of a drum majorette and carrying a homemade mace. My mother made it by attaching a plastic bottle to a broom shank. My Nanna lived in Byker and I guess we would probably have been to see her after / before the jazz band meeting. The jazz band scene was fantastic. We would travel all over the north east for carnivals and in later years as far a field as London, Wales, Filey and Ayr in Scotland. I was only 4 years old when I joined and didn’t leave till I was 20 years old. They were some of the best years of my life and I’m still in touch with quite a few of my jazz band family. Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, northern England circa 1973.
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young gDrum Majorettes in costume with her mother Byker & St. Peters, Newcastle upon Tyne 1970s
Preteen young girl in Drum Majorettes costume with her mother who is eating a take away fish and chip meal out of a newspaper.
Michelle Gosling (nee Purvis) writes: I would have been four or five years old in the photo.
My Mam was called Doreen Purvis and she would have been 37 years old. I was a member of the High Heaton Fusiliers juvenile jazz band. We lived in Walker; my two older cousins were already in the High Heaton Fusiliers, so that’s why I joined that band. I...
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From gallery: BYKER & ST PETER'S WORKING MENS CLUB 1970's BRITAIN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
Source: Homer Sykes
Date: 1 Jan 1973
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne Tyne and Wear UK
Credit: Homer Sykes
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Keywords:
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Tyne and Wear
  • Northern England
  • Newcastle - England
  • Working Class
  • British Society
  • UK
  • Archival
  • Archive Stock
  • Social History
  • people
  • 1970-1979
  • Arts Culture and Entertainment
  • Black and White
  • Child
  • Girl
  • Drum Majorette
  • Jazz Band
  • Mother and Daughter
  • Eating
  • Take Away
  • Fast Food
  • Fish and Chips
  • Meal
  • Eating from Newspaper
  • 1973
  • 1970s

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