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RefNoKHP46/30/9/47
AltRefNoHP46/30/9/47
TitlePhotograph of All Saints church choir
DescriptionPhotograph of All Saints church choir. Some of the members are named - Anthony Thurston, Norman Sanders, Dickie Golding, head choir boy, Mr P Potter, Canon Addleshaw, Mr Miles, Jeff Irons, Terence Kilby, Ray (Butch) Hibbin, William Jolly, Alec Skinner. With a covering letter (dated 1983) from Gwyn Evans in Australia who had been in the choir and who supplied these names.

There is also a note about the name of the organist, George Brown, who was known to the boys as "Potter Brown" and not Mr P Brown, and giving additional information about the choir - "He [George Brown] was followed by Mr Harold Dew a very good and popular corganist, and during his time Tony Thurston was Head Boy and sang many solos. Mr Miles as well as being the 'best barber in Huntingdon', was also scout master of the 1st Hartford scouts, an excellent troup, and many of the choir boys were scouts, Dick Golding, Terry Kilty, Geoffrey Irons, Alex Skinner (not Alec). The tall boy at the back is Roy Spencer and then Wally Goldsmith they both sang in the back row (bass) until called up for National Service, as did Gwyn Ecans and Norman Saunders."
Datec1944
CreatorNameHuntingdon All Saints with St John Parish Church
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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