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Life Before the Accident

 

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Shoeburyness YP Band

Clarence learned to play the cornet at The Salvation Army and was a member of Shoeburyness Salvation Army Young People's Band. Picture c. 1967

Left to right

Back row: Band Leader Fred Harvey, Asst Band Leader Patrick Harrild, Terry Willson
Front Row: Harry Adoo, Alan Cunningham, Robert West, Clarence Adoo, Chris Horton, Stuart Horton
Thanks to Chris Horton for supplying this photo

Five members of this band met up again in 2003. Click to see a comparison

Band 1983

Shoeburyness Salvation Army band in 1983.
Clarence was then Deputy Bandmaster and principal cornet.

Left to Right:

DBM Clarence Adoo, Stuart Pinborough, Capt Stuart Frost, Norman Goodall (Col. Sgt), Bandmaster Reg Hodges, Capt. Jo Frost, Dennis Hills (SL), Martin (?), David Stoner
Len Stanley, Fred Harvey (YPBL), Robert Wilcockson, Tony Pryor, Brian Nichols, John Wilcockson, Mervyn Reed

...the camera caught them in an off-guard moment. Clarence and the two Stuarts seem to be enjoying the joke. (Note the Eupho player is paying proper attention to picture!!)

Band 1983

 

Clarence as deputy Bandmaster

Clarence as Deputy Bandmaster

Band on beach

You can just make out Clarence at the end of this row of cornets in an open air meeting on Shoebury Common Beach

Clarence in a sack race

Clarence is pipped to the post in a sack race

Clarence graduates

Clarence graduates at the Royal College of Music

Clarence playing solo

Clarence plays a specially written solo in the Royal Albert Hall accompanied by the I.S.B. (mid 80s)

Clarence in suit

In his 'working clothes' for the Northern Sinfonia approx 1992/3