Callender's Cableworks Band

They were prolific broadcasters in the early years of BBC Radio,[1][2] and won 25 brass band competitions.

[3] Callender's employees included at least a hundred instrumentalists who spent their leisure time in four band groups.

However this caused difficulties in purchasing their own uniforms and instruments, so their employer, Callender's, stepped in as patron.

[1][2] In 1929 Jim Thompson joined the band; later in 1939 he was to found the Belvedere Male Voice Choir.

Hardy on cornet, W. Sloane on euphonium, Harold Laycock on trombone and Pat Greener on xylophone.

On the afternoon and evening of Sunday 20 March of the same year, they performed at the opening of the new art deco frontage of the Central Bandstand, Herne Bay, Kent.

[10] Under the name of Callenders Senior Band they recorded Colonel Bogey, Entry of the Gladiators, Le Grenadier, Les Huguenots (parts 1 and 2), Three Dale Dances and Triana on 78 rpm disks.

[12] In the late 1920s they recorded A Sailor's Life (Descriptive Fantasia), parts 1 and 2, conducted by Tom Morgan, on two Broadcast Twelve disks.