Wigan Album

Anyone able to name these folks. My ggfather died at Bickershaw in October 1946. He may have been in this photo.

My Grandad is on the front row next to the last, his name was William Gregory

My uncle Walter Horrabin,cornet player ison back row 2nd from right

I have the full names for this photo:-
Back Row:
(left to right): Clifton Jones; W (Bill) Clegg; A. Coultas; Joseph (Joe). Nightingale; Jack Mawdesley; Robert (Bob) Clarke; Edward (Ted) Farrington; Harry Gray; W. Horrabin; Ted Gray (Snr)
Middle Row:
Herbert (Bert) Healy; Peter Gill; Harry Pollard; H. Pownall;
J. Gregory; Vince Preston; W (Bill) Gill; Charlie Hulse; J. Mather; E. Nesbitt
Seated:
A. Hicks; Jack Wilson; Walter Wilding; Fred Fogarty; William Haydock; Lt Col Ernest Hart MC; H. Jackson; E. Rowland Jones; William (Bill) Gregory and W. Dauber.
E Rowland Jones, was the best man at my father's wedding in Wigan in 1941 - Rowland like my father was a Welshman and like my father married a Lancashire girl, Rowland's girl was from Leigh, while my father who played for Wigan RL club married a Wigan girl, my mother.
Rowland was a fine Euphonium player and originally "came north" just like the Welsh rugby players, but to play for the Black Dyke Band - he'd been "recruited" by Arthur O. Pearce the legendary conductor from the Black Dyke Mills Band himself - this was in 1934. In 1939 he was persuaded to join Bickershaw Colliery Band under the baton of William Haydock. Rowland enjoyed success with Black Dyke but even more with the Bickershaw Band.
In 1946 he auditioned for a place at the Sadler's Wells Opera Company was held in July 1946 in Manchester - having been accepted he was given his first professional singing role by Sadler's Wells He was given most of the major tenor roles in the repertory and often performed on the radio.
He was with Sadler's Wells for the next twelve years - for many of those years as a principal artist and then with the Welsh National Opera Company. After a life time in music this former miner died on August 28th 1978, aged 66, he was survived by his wife Roseann and daughters Sybil and Sally.