It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two, it must have been, when my predecessor  and I were sat down, and we said what about a band, they all said, what band, well let's have a band, and  and it started just like that, and we, we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it, and we had a meeting at headquarters, to which about forty or fifty people turned up, of which two had probably blown a  an instrument in the past, and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a, a chap who was a musical teacher in town  who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out, we had a penny, with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick  and we said we'd pay for it, and er 