It was a sad yet proud day for ten-year-old Kenneth Harkness, second cornet, and the youngest competitor in the Seaton (Workington) brass and silver band contest. His father had died only a few hours before he mounted the platform with the village band, which won a first, a second and fourth prize. When Mr Tom Eastwood, the adjudicator, praised him for his courage, Kenneth said: "My dad knew he was dying, and told me, 'My boy, you must play to-day.' While I was playing I kept saying to myself, 'I am playing for you, dad.' The boy's father was a miner, aged thirty-three.
Seaton Silver
