The Florence Shield for Male Voice Choirs
1935-39

    Bernard Lock of Brancaster is keen to learn more about the history of The Florence Shield for Male Voice Choirs, pictured below, which was a trophy at the Norfolk Musical Competition Festival in the 1930s, and about the choirs of Heacham, Upton and Brancaster, which won the shield in the years noted by the inscriptions.  The oak and silver shield was brought to the attention of Mr Lock by Mr Geoff Mellors, of Wells, who then lent it to the Brancaster Midsummer Music Festival for display at its concerts last year.

    The achievements of those Norfolk singers ought to be commemorated, and it is hoped that more can be discovered about the events and the participants before everything slips away into the forgotten past.  Any names of choir members and memories of the choir's activities would be very helpful, and especially any photographs of those involved——which would be copied and promptly and gratefully returned.