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As I recall Lund Park YC was held on Saturday evenings (music, table tennis, badminton etc.), but there was also another group on Sunday evenings. Can't recall what it was called or how it differed from the Saturday youth club. No doubt John Ackroyd or Brian Moate can set me straight.
I was YF secretary for a couple of years and had to get the speakers, that would be 1964/5 as I left for Uni then, you probably took over from me John.
Cubs and Scouts served chiefly as youth clubs for me until one day in the school yard, Howard Thompson (6A1 ) approached me (3A) with the challenge, “Do you play the drums?” He knew the answer before he asked.
I was invited to rehearse with a few instrumentalists who were getting together in the Ilkley Road Methodist Sunday School (right by the Willow Tree!”).
Howard (KBGS) played trumpet; Bill Emmott (KBGS) clarinet; David Scott (KBGS) Alto Sax; Geoff Craven (BGS) banjuke; Margaret Nunweek (KGGS) piano. Also hovering in attendance was Malcolm Laycock (BGS) with a mass of jazz and big band knowledge (later to succeed Alan Dell on BBC radio).
The line-up was best suited to a Trad or Dixieland repertoire so we hammered our way through Alabama Jubilee; Muskrat Ramble – anything with a 2/4 upbeat tempo – not forgetting "The Saints" - and including The Bells of St Mary’s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “What a friend we have in Jesus” also responded well to the treatment.
It became clear to me from their conversation that these new found friends attended the Young Peoples Sunday School and YPF at Ilkley Road – so, not to be side-lined, so did I.
Frank Jagger's brother was Peter. He was in the 6th form when I started at KBGS in 1945 and he features four from the left on the teachers row on the 1946 panoramic photograph. He must have been in the same form as Tom Punt and the late Paul Greenwood, F K Whalley and Brian Dale.