The North West Region has produced many a brilliant band over the years, but some have also disappeared into the mists of time..

What became...

So what became, not of the broken hearted, but of winning regional champion bands from the old Second Section like, Atherton, Stretford Old, Farnworth Old, Storey’s of Lancaster, Hoggarth’s Tractor Works, East Lancashire Paper Group and Urmston & Davy Hulme?

In the Third Section: Dove Holes Public, Flimby Saxhorn, Newton Heath WMC?

In the Fourth Section: Bury Silver, Chester Blue Coat Silver, Dutton Forshaw, Warburton’s Bakery Bolton.

South Wales steelworkers?

And why was a band that appeared to have come from a South Wales steelworking town winning the Second Sectionin 1974?

Port Talbot Royal British Legion took the honours – surely they didn’t make the trip up from South Wales?