Rockingham ARCHIVE
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery 1850
(Our founding year)
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery 1850
(Our founding year)
Rockingham Band has a vast history which covers over 165 years of mining, steel and music making. From its original days as Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Band and the Rockingham Osbourne Steel Band, to today as the Rockingham Band, The archives show masses of history to be pondered and admired.
Here we have collected some of that history for you to enjoy just as we have done.
We believe that to fully understand where you are going, you must first understand where you have been!
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery 1948
The trombone section accompanied by a member of the cornet section.
from left to right:
Unknown (cornet), Unknown (Trom), Colin Stewart (Trom), Unknown (Trom)
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Disaster
1914
11 Killed & 4 Injured
Walter Bailey (19), George Bailey (52), John Fearnley (23), William Fisher (32), Harold Gardiner (40), Henry Littlewood (27), Joeseph Siddal (18), Fredrick Walker (20), Oscar Wood (24), John Wordsworth (24), John Fisher (40)
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery
Senior Trophy Champions
1954
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery
Grand Shield Champions
1958
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery
Grand Shield Champions
1963
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery
Post 1970
Kieth Taylor (front, 2nd from right) still plays with the band today!