Conductor Gilbert Uren [in centre holding trophy], shortly after the choir won a top prize at the prestigious Blackpool festival, c1969.
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Barrow Working Men's Club and Institute Male Voice Choir. Winners of the Grundy Challenge Vase for choirs of up to forty voices. The contest for this class at Blackpool on 24 October 1969 involved singing two test pieces, which on this occasion were The Vision of Belshazzar by Granville Bantock and Go Lovely Rose by Edgar Bainton.
1 Gardner Hodgson
2 Johnny Babbs
3 Harold Kerr
4 Bill Jacobs
5 ?
6 ?
7 Jimmy Williams
8 Harry Healey
9 Henry Webb
10 Lewis Grieve
11 Martin Tongue
12 Ben High
13 Jim Love
14 Eddie Fell
15 George Dixon
16 Ken Ralph
17 ?Len Hubbold
18 ?Les Wilson
19 Alan Barber
20 Fred Morgan
21 Mike Graham
22 Jack Garnett
23 ?Ted Wilson
24 Jim Rogan
25 Harold Wilkinson
26 Jim Warburton
27 Wilf Holt
28 Bill Roberts
29 Bob Shuttleworth
30 Harry Hall (chairman)
31 Gilbert Uren conductor, with trophy)
32 Jack Newman JP (Barrow Working Men's Club president)
33 Bill Graham (choir secretary)
34 Edwin Griffin
35 Jack Perrin