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24 March 2007

  • 12:2512:25, 24 March 2007 diff hist +639 N Cas WallinNew page: '''Cas Wallin:''' was one of Doug Wallin’s uncles.  Many of the songs that Cas and Doug sang were similar to those that Sharp collected from the singer Mary Sands, who was, in fact,...
  • 12:2412:24, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,288 N Doug WallinNew page: '''Doug Wallin:''' Doug Wallin’s farm lies at the head of Crane Branch, two or three miles away from the settlement of Sodom Laurel.  The path up the cove follows, and often crosses...
  • 12:2312:23, 24 March 2007 diff hist +744 N Mary Ann HaynesNew page: '''Mary Ann Haynes:''' was almost the first Gypsy singer that the collector and recordist Mike Yates was to meet.  She was born in 1905, in a Faversham waggon parked behind ''The Coac...
  • 12:2212:22, 24 March 2007 diff hist 0 Song→‎Traditional Singers
  • 12:2012:20, 24 March 2007 diff hist +2,090 N George DunnNew page: '''George Dunn:''' (1887-1975) was born in the Black Country village of Quarry Bank, then in Staffordshire, some eight miles west of Birmingham, and spent most of his long life there.&nbsp...
  • 12:2012:20, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,573 N Ellen MitchellNew page: '''Ellen Mitchell:''' was born in Glasgow, but left as a very small baby, to live in Kirn, Dunoon and Innellan, along the Clyde Coast.  She returned at the age of seven and has been l...
  • 12:1912:19, 24 March 2007 diff hist +909 N Kevin MitchellNew page: '''Kevin Mitchell:''' was born in St Columb’s Wells, Derry City, and grew up in Springtown Camp and the Creggan Estate.  From a very early age he was interested in Irish songs, musi...
  • 12:1812:18, 24 March 2007 diff hist +3,924 N Joe RaeNew page: '''Joe Rae:''' was born in Lanarkshire in 1937, between Davel and Strathaven, where the road goes by Bow Butts.  His father, David Rae, was a ploughman at Rylandside Farm.  Soon,...
  • 12:1712:17, 24 March 2007 diff hist +839 N Frank HinchliffeNew page: '''Frank Hinchliffe:''' was born in 1923 at Fulwood, to the west of Sheffield, and was a farmer for much of his life.  Ian Russell estimated that Frank had a substantial repertoire ap...
  • 12:1612:16, 24 March 2007 diff hist +558 Freda PalmerNo edit summary
  • 12:1512:15, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,196 N Sarah PorterNew page: '''Sarah Porter:''' was born in 1905 and died, aged 75, in 1980.  She came from the travelling family of Williams, her mother being a Barton from Rogate in Hampshire.  They trave...
  • 12:1412:14, 24 March 2007 diff hist +656 N Jim WilsonNew page: '''Jim Wilson:''' was born in 1875, and died of cancer in June 1961, a year after these recordings were made.  He was a miller’s roundsman, a railway worker and later a gardener.&nb...
  • 12:1412:14, 24 March 2007 diff hist +2,173 N Daisy ChapmanNew page: '''Daisy Chapman:''' was the eldest daughter of Mary (née Gill) and John Birnie, was born on the 12th of May 1912, in the same bedroom in which her mother had been born, in the farm croft...
  • 12:1312:13, 24 March 2007 diff hist +2 Song→‎Traditional Singers
  • 12:1212:12, 24 March 2007 diff hist +420 N Denny SmithNew page: '''Jabez (Biggun) Smith:''' and '''Denny Smith''' were Wiggy’s uncles, two of his father’s brothers.  Peter Shepheard, an ex-Stroud lad, returned home for a few weeks in 1967 and ...
  • 12:1112:11, 24 March 2007 diff hist +420 N Biggun SmithNew page: '''Jabez (Biggun) Smith:''' and '''Denny Smith''' were Wiggy’s uncles, two of his father’s brothers.  Peter Shepheard, an ex-Stroud lad, returned home for a few weeks in 1967 and ...
  • 12:1012:10, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,994 N Wiggy SmithNew page: '''Wiggy Smith:''' was born on 3rd July 1926 in a covered wagon parked on the fields of Filton Common near Bristol - the area now covered by Filton aerodrome.  As the first boy to be ...
  • 12:1012:10, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,898 N Walter PardonNew page: '''Walter Pardon:''' lived all his life in the redbrick farm workers’ cottage where he was born on 4th March 1914, in the village of Knapton, Norfolk.  All the male family members, ...
  • 12:0912:09, 24 March 2007 diff hist +2,289 N George TownshendNew page: '''George Townshend:''' was born at Wootten Farm, East Chiltington, near Lewes, on August 29th, 1882.  His father was bailiff of Wootten Farm at that time, but when George was seven y...
  • 12:0712:07, 24 March 2007 diff hist −2 Song→‎Traditional Singers
  • 12:0412:04, 24 March 2007 diff hist +847 N Cyril PoacherNew page: '''Cyril Poacher:''' was born at Stone Common, near Blaxhall, Suffolk, in 1910, to Alice (née Ling) and Lewis Poacher of Blaxhall.  Like his father he was a cowman almost all his lif...
  • 12:0312:03, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,845 N Bob HartNew page: '''Bob Hart:''' was born in 1892 at Sotherton, Suffolk, a village near Halesworth, but soon moved a few miles coast-ward to Reydon near Southwold.  He came from a farming family - his...
  • 12:0112:01, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,090 Song→‎Traditional Singers

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