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HISTORY! First of all we are a non paramilitary band. Our flags are as follows: {Bannerette}  {Ulster Flag}  {Union Jack Flag}  {Scotland Flag}  {Loyal Orange Institution Flag}  We have formed as recently as the 10th September 2000 our history is as follows: Three years before the band formed a bunch of Mossley residents got together to show there support for the orangemen at drumcree. A few of the men had been in flute bands before so they decided to parade around the Old Mossley estate. They had one side drummer, one bass drummer and four fluters, they might not have been large in numbers but they played there hearts out. While parading they always gatherd a good crowd to follow them. One 11th night they paraded to there local bonfire where they were greeted by a couple of hundred people. The crowd throughly enjoyed themselves and wanted them to play well into the early hours of the 12th morning, which they did even though they were all shattered from the previous nights parading. In the days following the 12th a few of them got together and decided to try and start a band, they had talked about it in previous years but for one reason or another they never got around to starting it.They knew there where enough young people in the Old Mossley estate to start a band. But since alot of them had never picked up a flute or played a drum before, we knew it would take time to convince them that they could learn an instrument. The next stage was to get a place to practice, we eventually got the Mossley Pavillion, where the first practice took place on the 10th September 2000, and the band was offically formed and the commitee was elected. At our first practice we got an excellent response from the young people from Old Mossley and the surrounding areas, which seen us attract around twenty five people. We then started to fund raise, selling poker cards etc to get some funds together to purchace some flutes.The band where kindly allowed to use the side drums from the William Gordon Memorial F.B by the family of William Gordon to practice on, which we greatly appreciate. We needed to raise alot of money to purchase more flutes and also purchase new drums.We where undecided as regards to uniforms due to the vast amounts of money required to purchase even the most modest uniforms. Like most other bands we would probably start of with Black Trousers and Tee shirts.But we decided on a blue Tee Shirt and Tartan Trousers. So there it is, that is a little bit of our bands history. Thank you for taking the time to read it. (We now have new Jackets, Hats and the band has everything we require)..(2002) CROWN DEFENDERS OLD MOSSLEY! God Save The Queen. No Surrender!
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