page_title: Pangbourne
section_title: Pangbourne and District Silver Band
hierarchical_section_title: Pangbourne / Pangbourne and District Silver Band
caption_attribution_description: English: The Pangbourne and District Silver Band performing as part of the Oxford and District Brass Band Association's Festival of Brass at Blenheim Palace on 25 July 2010
context_page_description: Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire. Pangbourne has its own shops, schools, a railway station on the Great Western Line and a parish hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an independent school, Pangbourne College.
context_section_description: The history of the Pangbourne Band began in 1893 when a fife and drum band used to rehearse in a shed behind the water mill, but when the First World War broke out the band broke up, re-forming in 1919 after the Armistice.  Regular concerts were held from then until the outbreak of the Second World War, when many of the bandsmen served in the Armed Forces and the band again broke up and the instruments were held in storage.
  In 1962, Henry Fuller, a local tutor, started the village brass group.  Local musicians became involved when the old instruments were recovered from storage, and the band was established as a full-size contesting brass band within a few years.  In 2009 in music Pangbourne All-Comers' Band was begun (adults and children) incorporating brass and for parade days drums and bell lyre glockenspiel.
caption: The Pangbourne and District Silver Band July 2010
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