(Obviously in the days before seatbelts! Huge numbers of people followed their local band even in Campbelltown.During the Second World War the band went into recess, reforming in 1947 with Here is the junior band on a picnic to The Gorge on December 30th 1950. Participants included Argyll & Bute Council, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, trades unions and local employers.The Creamery was expected to close unless new investors were willing to take over. Explore the history of our city since settlement, learn about our aboriginal history, find out the history of your suburb and read about prominent people in our city's past. Campbelltown’s colonial heritage is reflected in the large number of heritage listed buildings throughout Campbelltown. A picnic but with their instruments!Rehearsals were held twice a week in the St Martin’s Church Hall.Now this is a period that we could say is not ancient history as many of these boys would still be alive today.By the late 1950s the band was in the doldrums again with worn out instruments, worn out uniforms and with no place to rehearse or store equipment contributing to low morale.In April 1959 Irvine Nicholson negotiated with the Army for the Campbelltown Band to be signed on as a unit of the Citizens Military Force 43/48 Btn. Campbelltown City Council eventually demolished it after the band moved out – thankfully not before.After much discussion the band contributed funds to the Campbelltown City Council to enable the building of the current Senior Citizen’s Club so that the band could use their old room as the current store. The Catholic Church acquired the land in 1840.


In return for providing all the military ceremonial music for the Army the band was provided with a uniform, two in fact (khaki and navy blue ceremonial dress), a place to rehearse, a full set of good instruments and the motivational challenge. Your JavaScript is disabled, we suggest you enable it to improve your Council website user experience.

We have detected you are using Internet Explorer 10 or earlier. Also the combined efforts of the Band, Campbelltown Football Club, East Torrens Cricket Club and the then Progress Association led to a new liquor licence.

However they had to make do with “Packer’s Hut”, a corrugated iron and timber remnant from WWII.Not only was the band invited many times to march in the prestigious annual John Martin’s Christmas Pageant, but in 1970 it became the first community band to lead the Adelaide Festival of Arts opening procession.For one John Martin’s Pageant, Campbelltown joined with the local pipe band, using music from Major Jock Howie, Musical Director of the Scots Guard, with the band marking time for a few paces while the pipers and their drummers marched to the front for their ‘solo chorus’ before returning to the mass ranks as the total ensemble of band and pipes resumed.

Live music ruled.

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Whew! A fire in the refrigerator soon dampened enthusiasm.Along with the benefits of joining the military came the costs. History By 1963 the part time Sunday afternoon Soccer players from the Campbelltown district, had had enough of the locally organised ‘scratch matches’ at Morialta Park and Foxfield They felt that their standard was too high to worry about avoiding artichokes, trees, cow manure, rocks, etc. This report would imply Campbelltown won everything at the 1999 Tanunda Campbelltown City Band was always highly visible on a march with its red jackets and white pith helmets and remained one of the few civilian bands to retain a military appearance. A number of interim Musical Directors struggled to retain enthusiasm, increase competencies, and train the younger learners. Looking down from the top of Davaar. No uniform. ISBN 978-0-9578277-7-6. Inevitably there was a large following for each band and competitions became significant times in the community calendar. List of the past Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Town Clerks and General Managers of Campbelltown City. Not only brass instrumentation but clarinets and saxophones were helping out at engagements. Nothing succeeds like success and this was just the impetus that was needed.The band provided ceremonial music for a period in excess of 5 years.

That band club is no longer in existence.Naturally this upset the band members a little and morale dropped. Campbelltown was founded in 1820 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and named after his wife Elizabeth, whose maiden name was Campbell.

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Shades of the Edinburgh Tattoo.George Charlton told me the story of the band club rooms being raided by the police one Sunday at 4:05pm – 5 minutes after the supposed closing time.

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So 1923 seems likely.In 1926 the band went up-market and changed its name to the The term ‘silver band’ is the same as ‘brass band’ but in those days ‘brass’ instruments were not as costly as silver plated ones, and the term ‘silver band’ implied a band that could afford high grade instruments and thus were a more successful band.At the same time the band was fitted out with their first uniforms; blue navy style jacket, white trousers and caps.The band must have been quite good at this time as it played at the Elder Park Rotunda in December 1931.Just contemplate white trousers in the Campbelltown market garden environment!


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