Extract 3: Wingates Temperance Band, 1910

Wingates Band was formed in 1873 by members of the Bible Class of Wingates Independent Methodist church, after taunts from their friends in the old band. The original name of the drum and fife band they formed was Westhoughton Good Templars, but within a year they switched to brass, and in 1878 the name was changed to Wingates Temperance Band, a name that lasted until 1980, when the word 'temperance' was dropped.