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Garden Party
My foster mother Mrs. Brown at her Garden Party, inaugurating her election to
the Chair of the Prescot Town Council. As a Salvationist she requested that the
Prescot SA Band provide the music at this event. Her deputy, chosen by her was
also a member of the Prescot Corps of the Salvation Army, Mrs. Elsie Lunt.
I am pictured on the front far right, with my future foster father Bill Bygroves
standing behind me. The Commanding Officers are Captain & Mrs. John Evans.
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It was and still is the practice of Salvation Army bands and
songster brigades to visit other SA Corps in the country and overseas, in order
to provide the worship during what would normally be Saturday and Sunday of a
given week-end. These occasions were designed to be both an encouragement for
the musical section and the Corps being visited. The above picture is of some of
the younger members of the Prescot SA Band during a stop-off point during our
150 mile visit to Easington Lane. Below I am pictured with one of my very first
girl friends from Easington Lane, but I shall leave you to guess who it was.
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As best man to my foster brother
David Bygroves
As a Boy Scout during a visit to Glasgow, Scotland. The Scout
Master was also the Bandmaster of the Prescot SA Band, Ernie Rylance. |
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Some of the young people at Speake Corps Liverpool. These were
very happy times for me, and the teenagers above with me I shall never forget.
There are at least two in the picture who have now died. |
At a music camp in the lovely Lake District of Northern
England. The conductor and director of the camp was the Salvation Army's famous musician
Captain Norman Bearcroft. |
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My Foster father Mr. WC Bygroves taken at the Famous
"Exbury Gardens" in the New Forest Hampshire, during a week long visit
to our home in that county. He has been down the years a tremendous help to my
family. Has treated me like his own son and my children as his own
grandchildren. Mr. & Mrs. Bygroves had two children of their own. Ruth who
trained as a nurse and married a Doctor, who had his practice on the Wirral before his retirement. David is the son who lives and works on the Isle of Man
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