Bill Briggs was not at the very first Lower Withington Rally in 1962, he hadn't entered the steam scene at that time.
From the people who were at the first rally who are still around I can think of Norris Lawton, our own David Powell, Alan Willianson, and the Wedgewood brothers with “Shrewsbury Belle”, Peter and Terry Holden, Peter Cawley from Middlewich, Matthew and Julia Swindlehurst who like myself were only young at the time, and Phil Moston whose father's land it was held on.
I have attached a scan of the announcement in the World's Fair of the first rally at Lower Withington and also the report from the Knutsford Guardian. There is also a scan of the photograph and write-up in the Advertisor in 1980 of the three founders of the rally.
