SUMMARY OF PHOTOGRAPHS 

 

This page is intended as a simpler guide to photographs which are referred to mainly on the Archives & Memorabilia page.

 

Click on the thumbnails to see the full-size image.

 

PHOTOS: CHOIR, INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS & GUESTS

 

Postcard: choir in practice room, annotated "C Dearden, 1932"

 

Choir (mostly wearing bow ties and evening dress) outside Working Men's InstituteWorking Men's Institute with 2 trophies and 1 shield (early view; 8 copies, one being annotated "J C Dearden, 1935-36

 

  Choir (mostly wearing neckties) outside Working Men's Institute, with conductor H H Thomas [centre front] and 3 trophies (2 copies, variously dated "mid-1930s"  and "JCD, Oct 1948").

 

Choir (mostly wearing bow ties and evening dress) outside Working Men's Institute with 2 shields, early view, no date, c1930s.

 

Choir just after Coming-of-Age concert outside Public Hall with conductor Gilbert Uren [centre front] (2 copies), c1952.

 

Photo: Gilbert Uren, Harry Hall, Jack Byfield, Owen Brannigan and his friend Henry Webb (2 copies), Annual Concert 1961.

 

Photo: choir under Gilbert Uren [in centre holding trophy], shortly after the choir won a top prize at the prestigious Blackpool festival (2 copies), c1969. 

 

Choir under Reg Lanworn [front, fifth from left] at rehearsal preparing for "Grand Sing" competition on BBC TV and Golden Jubilee concert in Civic Hall, (2 copies) c1980.

 

Choir (mostly wearing new light blue shirts) ready for television appearance on "A Grand Sing" under conductor Reg Lanworn, 1980.

 

Local solicitor Martyn Tongue gave the choir more than forty years of voluntary service as a piano accompanist up to the 1996 annual concert [taken from the History page].

 

Photo of choir members at Furness Abbey, preparing for 70th Anniversary celebrations in 2001 (Loose item taken from newscutting album

 

  Choir members after annual concert at Lisdoonie Hotel, October 2006

 

Choir members taken at Holy Family Church Hall, Newbarns, 2 August 2010 [taken from the Home page] .

 

PROGRAMME COVERS

 

The first Annual Concert in 1952 was actually billed as the Coming-of-Age Concert

 

One copy of the Annual Concert 1959 programme has been autographed by members and guests on the cover.

 

Souvenir programme including photographs and historical notes: Barrow Male Voice Choir 70 Years of Song Celebration Concert, Forum 28, Barrow, Saturday 14 July 2001

 

PRIZE CERTIFICATES & NOTES

 

  Typed copies (3) of Short History of the choir (as used on original website), undated, c1960s-70s; (one copy includes a  list of placings in various festival competitions 1931-1960

 

Barrow & District Musical Festival 1st Prize certificate, Male Voice Choirs, Oct 1932

 

56th Morecambe Musical Festival (founded 1891): 3rd place certificate, 5-14 May 1960

 

Southport Music Festival: 2nd place certificate, 1962