Description

Championship Section Band.
Our aspiration is to foster the talent and education of our Members, provide quality entertainment to the community and to encourage the development of young and potential talent​.

Blidworth Welfare Band is a brass band with mining heritage. We started out in the late 19th century as the Stanton Hill Temperance Band based in Sutton in Ashfield, the band later changed their name to the Stanton Hill Silver Prize Band until the coal industry paid an interest in brass banding in general. An alliance with the Teversal, Silver Hill and Sutton Collieries saw a name change for the band and it became the Teversal Collieries Band until the demise of those mines in the late 70’s which forced the band to relocate to Blidworth in 1980 and a name change to The Blidworth Welfare Band.



Over the years we have been supported by various companies, B J Mining, Homefires, local businessman George Aitken, Hopkins Solicitors and we now have an ongoing partnership with A W Lymn Funeral Services, we are extremely grateful for their help and commitment to the band and hope that it may continue.



Blidworth Welfare Band has established itself over the years to be an extremely successful contesting and concert band performing all over the country. Since 2009 the band, in National Competitions has been placed in the top 6 no less than 22 times. In that time the band has also progressed from 2nd section returning to the Championship Section in 2017 competing against some of the top brass bands in the country such as Black Dyke, Grimethorpe Colliery, Brighouse & Rastrick, Fodens, Carlton Main Frickley to name but a few.

Description

The Church of St Mary Magdalene has been a place of worship for the townspeople of Newark on Trent for over 800 years.

It is notable for the tower and the octagonal spire (236 feet (72 m) high), the highest in Nottinghamshire and reputed to be the fifth tallest in the UK.

The central piers remain from the previous church, dating from the 11th or 12th century. The upper parts of the tower and spire were completed about 1350; the nave dates from between 1384 and 1393, and the chancel from 1489.

The sanctuary is bounded on the south and north by two chantry chapels, the former of which has on one of its panels a remarkable painting from the Dance of Death. There are a few old monuments, and an exceedingly fine brass of the 14th century. There is a hole in the spire which was supposedly made by a musket ball during the Civil War, although there is doubt locally as to the truth of the story. This hole is visible from some parts of the town centre. Much is written about our Church, its past and present. A good start point is, of course, a visit!

Church Walk,

Newark upon Trent,

Nottinghamshire,

England,

NG24 1JS.

01636 706473