A LEADING brass band will play a concert for a mining village's fundraising appeal.
The Bowburn Banner Group was formed recently to restore the village colliery's 1959 banner and produce a new one featuring a modern design on one side and a picture of the First World War nurse Edith Cavell - who featured on the pit's 1919 banner - on the other.
On Friday, February 25, The Reg Vardy Band, North of England champions 27 times, will be performing at Bowburn Community Centre to raise money for the appeal.
The band started life as Craghead Colliery Band in 1910, became the Ever Ready Band in 1969 - after the battery factory in Tanfield - and became the Reg Vardy Band after signing a five-year sponsorship deal with the Sunderland car dealers last year.
The band are old favourites at the Durham Miners Gala and are the band in residence at Durham University.
The banner group hopes that the concert will boost its appeal to raise £27,000.
The plan is to keep both banners at the community centre in cases made partly from the timber from pews from Bowburn's Christ the King Church, which closed last year.
The concert will start at 7.30pm - the bar opens half an hour earlier. Tickets cost £3 and are available from the community centre in Durham Road, Bowburn, DH6 5BB, telephone 0191-377 0571.
Cheques should be made payable to the Bowburn Banner Group.
Published: 11/02/2005
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