SAALYBRIDGE OLD BAND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 10

SAALYBRIDGE OLD BAND

. -.- ■■; ;■■» —; ■ ' CENTENARY, Tgis' YEAR, .The Stal.y'brjdgo o)dßand,which ecle* ) .brates it.vcentena.fy this .year, has pub- ] Irshed tiio history of: •■t'hV'hahd. • It .ap]»ats;"(?9ys'_nii\eschaj%i3) tlijit the Veal founder was 'a youth' jinineS t'hotfias Avisoiii- who hn'd/niade .ifn 1 uns'uclecss- . • fill attomtp-to- start-a-'bawd .iii the\win- . ter 'of' 1809,' when oiily.thirteen■'VparV <jf.'org..' Of this'y-BntuTo it is re- ; raided tlist "foe Wet with others, bent on the ss'rno object, and tfie.y, agreed to pfiy'tlirfetipeiiep ; par. week i-owa-rcls ,a band. With a flageolet, a date, and a olaHonSt' \tafo piircbaseo'., only, to .discover t)ijit the person Seting as' banker'to tfio.bjind refused' to retflni ■ tijo aieney--iiotf'itftstancfing' lier ptiblie position as wfe &:f the village beU* man." ' ' Jin .spitx; of t'hi£ disaster, ;■ a 'mooting of lads *as POld in Isl2, when it' was agreed to' form • another tod, add ihxg hM its ?lirst' tii'rn-oui 'at ,;'■■'•''"*.;.'.' : : 'V'""'.■The"- barf sipatliivr. ..progressed.,- an<3 jmi. Jaster' Monday y4§^ "'s> ''hfeibArel Urc'rity'-feis .pe'rfonii'ers, "aiiij ; played:' ite anew sk.v-fckie'wirifetui at aft' Oddfellows' procession at Gibssop," Not long afterwards, it ptayed for Orator Hunt at an lii-stor-ie occasion on St. Peter's Fields; Ma'nefeter, Of the bawl's "retreat frorti I'eterieo," it is said; "Oh they■ vreiit -until they cams tfl a cow lane', .when tljey ohsetfyed two' dragons approaching. '800/ifi' went the big dfuni oVer 'tlie hedge, fallowed ' - by tho.difii'infir. arid the otlier me'Sbprs,. Rtf ■ tlio to avoid il-ie soldiers, who were cQistent with swearing at the hapd, apd profflfeiiiß what they won! : IPil&> to t.hcja Jf 6a.nK'h : fc. On went the niSnibers of Hie. IvamJ. faster than ever, a«d oil thfty still rushed'TOitil they arrived at a- hat on the hanlcs of the catia}." They filially Kot homo' to' Stilybridge. in safety,