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In the early nineties Yorkshire Building Society started sponsoring the band and the name changed into Yorkshire Building Society Band. In 2004, however, the sponsorship ended and the band changed its name to YBS Band. There was a growing mood to change the name, and therefore the name was changed in January 2009 into "Hammonds Saltaire Band".
Number of employees. 3,117 (2022) 3,249 (2021) Website. Official website. Yorkshire Building Society is the third largest building society in the UK, [ 3] with its headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Building Societies Association. At December 2023, the Society had total assets of more than £60 billion.
The building society sector has become much smaller with fewer building societies. This was caused, firstly, a number of building societies demutualising in the 1980s and 1990s and subsequently, taken over by banks. Secondly, there has been ongoing consolidation via mergers between societies. There are 42 building societies in the UK as of 2021 ...
Yorkshire Building Society Band; Yorkshire Imperial Band This page was last edited on 29 May 2023, at 12:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Ruth Copeland, soul and blues singer. Susan Maughan [ 18] Darlington. Vic Reeves (as in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - see Middlesbrough) [ 19] We Start Fires [ 20] Dewsbury. Bob Hardy (bassist from Franz Ferdinand) [ 21] Joel Graham (bassist from Evile) Doncaster.
Philip Allen Sparke (born 29 December 1951) is an English composer and musician born in London, [ 1] noted for his concert band and brass band music. [ 2] His early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud – "Aotearoa", written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. [ 3]
British brass band. In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments. The modern form of the brass band in the United Kingdom dates back to the 19th century, with a vibrant tradition of competition based around communities and ...
Concerts with other well-known choirs and bands have proved to be very popular and guest performers have included the British Steel Band, The Best of British Jazz, Yorkshire Building Society Band, London Welsh Male Voice Choir, Morriston Male Voice Choir, The Leo Solomon Trio and Male Voice Choirs from the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.