Over The Years
Memories from years gone by.
1966
1966 President’s Evening
President: Beverley Town Mayor Neville Hobson
MA Kathleen Beswick
Back row: 5th from left Austin Stothard, 8th from left Frederick Berriman
Front row: 3rd from right Tom Hood, 2nd from left George Woolf, 2nd from right Henry Dover, 3rd from left Ron Dawson
1974
1974 President’s Evening
President: Beverley Town Mayor A Neville-Collier
MA: Kathleen Beswick
Front row: 3rd from left Percy Huzzard, 3rd from right Henry Dover
Back row: 3rd from right Frank Meadley, Extreme right Frederick Berriman
1981
1974 President’s Evening
1991
A 1991 trip to the Royal Albert Hall with other Yorkshire Choirs complete with white roses. Wonder what happened to our old habit of wearing same to sing a Yorkshire Day concert each year? See the late great Derek Robinson conducting in fine form in the Beverley Advertiser photo at departure. The ever-present Dorothy Walker wields the Union flag
1992
1994
Back row: John FenlonIan Christie, Gerald Flint, Idris Samuel, Stan Roberts, Jeff Constable, John Vine,Bob Dobbs, Jim Corbitt, Len Winter, Mike Offen
Third row: Brian Hutchins, Henry Dover, Ron Sutcliffe, Peter Newall, Eddie Harrison, Derek Mainwaring, Frank Meadley, Ken Doran, John Wright, Eric Lovatt
Second row: Mark Williams, David Wilkinson, John Perry, Clive Lobley, Don Charleworth, Bob Calvert, Basil Thompson, Bill Guest, Alan Hunter, Peter Tanton, Reg Osgerby
Front row: Ian Brocklesby, Fred Clark, Jack Holdsworth, Sam Ringrose, Eric Godson, Gerald Riley, Bill Bolton, Dorothy Walker, Derek Robinson, Michael McVeighIan Walker, Roy Baskerville
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In 2014 Reg Osgerby was the last founder member to leave us, aged 94. We sang his request “Eli Jenkins’ Prayer” at his funeral. The song was not part of our repertoire and we had to learn it from scratch for his funeral. Reg, a true rascal, probably knew that. He was a very fine bass singer who had served as a Sergeant in the East Yorkshire Regiment during WW2.
Royal Albert Hall, 19th November , 1994. The previous such concert in the Albert Hall, in 1992, the “1000 Voices” concert, raised £56,000 to be spent in Yorkshire on Cancer Research, some of this amount being allocated to Hull University and the Princess Royal Hospital
1995
A celebration cake for the first 40 years of Beverley Male Voice Choir at the Ferguson Fawsitt.
1997
Programmes from a 1997 visit to Germany.
Late 1990s
In Toll Gavel – with the now disbanded Lydian Male Voice Choir. The big chap at the back is Peter Brady, who later joined BMVC and once distinguished himself in a panto by playing all seven dwarfs. He tragically died while on holiday in Turkey.
In Hull City Hall with Hull, Driffield, and Lydian Male Voice Choirs and the EYMS Band.
2000
2000 – Presidents handover from Raymond Coles to Ann Christie – the first of Ann’s two presidencies!
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Back row: ​Ian Christie, Keith McCoy, Peter Duffus, Eddie Harrison, Bob Dodds, John Cross, Jim Corbitt, Graham Smith, Len Winter
Fourth row: Brian Hutchins, Geoff Rawlings, Malcolm Wiles, Brian Railton, Jeff Constable, Frank Meadley, Derek Mainwaring, Gordon King, Eric Lovatt
Third row: David Wilkinson, Clive Lobley, John Cooke, Mike McDonald, Idris Samuel, Derek Robinson, Ken Doran, Derek Rigby, John Wright, Andrew Eastwood
Second row: Mark Williams, Eric Godson, Bill Guest, Alan Hunter, Bill Bolton, Jock McVeighIan Ian Walker, Peter Newall
Front row: Ann Christie (Incoming President), Raymond Coles (Outgoing President), Pat Cave (MA), CaveIan Brocklesby (MD)
Early 2000s
2011
A close study of chair legs reveals that things look a bit cramped in the centre front as very supportive President Philip Smith, (who very sadly died young not long after his term of office ended), Pat and Liz are sharing two chairs between them.
2014
Gordon King ( front row, extreme right) became the first member to sing at his own funeral! As the exit music, we heard Gordon’s fine bass voice in the solo part of “The Hippopotamus Song” from an old CD. Nigel presented Gordon’s daughters with a beautiful reproduction of the track. There was also a recording of the lovely voice of his grand-daughter, who later sang a guest spot at two of the Choir’s concerts. An extreme devotee of the Choir, Gordon, though quite ill, sang at a concert in Withernsea three day before his death.
2017
Back row: Hugh Walton, Ian Christie,Andrew Noon, Wilf Cooper, Bernard Norris, Bill Webster, Phil MacMullen, Mike Offen, Nick Hart
Fourth row: Richard Soltysek, Ian Metcalfe, Richard Carter, Peter Stevens, Alan Speed, Bob Watson, Bill Wilcox, Tom Walker, Steve Horner
Third row: Chris Szafran, David Williamson, Peter Newall, David Wilmot, Steve Watts, Malcolm Whitfield, Julian Musik, Nick Andrews, Alan Lee, Peter Goonan
Second row: Malcolm Mathias, Tom Danter, Terry Lynn, Glyn Cohen, Jon Capel, Barry Gibson, Ken Doran, David Rutter, David Cross
Front row: Paul Camm (VP), Amy Butler (Pianist), Kate Andrews (President), Liz Wilson (MD), Nigel Clarke (Asst MD)
An earlier version of the Choir badge. Note that we have gone from DJ to blue to scarlet and, in 2017, to our current burgundy colour.
2018
The choir sang at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium to mark 100 years since the ending of the first World War.
Lest We Forget
This link takes you to a page commemorating Choir members, good comrades all, who are no longer with us. Let us from time to time think about them and what they meant to us.
Picture those that you knew – and perhaps wish you had known those that you didn’t. Many of these departed friends appear in the 1994 photo on this “Over the Years” page.