March King of the North East

George Allan was born in New Shildon (County Durham) on March 21st 1864. He showed an aptitude for music from an early age and he was a member of the Church Choir and New Shildon Juvenile Band. He was to spend his working life as a Wagon Painter in the Shildon Railway Works, but devoted much of his free time to his passion for music, playing in the Shildon Saxhorn Band, then conducting the band along with the orchestra which was attached to Shildon Operatic Societ...