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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 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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