Hartlepool History Then & Now

Band and female singer

What we know about this image :

The Tommy Lough Orchestra 'always good dancing at the Rink is on the banner under an advert for Michael Wilding in Into the Blue at the Odeon which was released in 1950.

The band were resident at the Rink in the early 1950s. In Hartlepool Mails for 1950 and 51, the female vocalist was Lynn Burns, Al Bowring played Cavioline and Saxophone and Joe Dennis was also a vocalist. In1952, Mabel Bew was shown as a female vocalist. Therefore the lady on the image could be Lynn Burns or Mabel Bew.

Part of the "Hartlepool Museum Service" collection

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