User contributions for RodStradling

26 March 2007

• 15:5115:51, 26 March 2007 diff hist +127‎ Doug Wallin ‎No edit summary
• 15:4915:49, 26 March 2007 diff hist +127‎ Benton Flippen ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4815:48, 26 March 2007 diff hist +127‎ Pug Allen ‎No edit summary
• 15:4615:46, 26 March 2007 diff hist +66‎ Scan Tester ‎No edit summary
• 15:4515:45, 26 March 2007 diff hist +140‎ Harry Cockerill ‎No edit summary
• 15:4315:43, 26 March 2007 diff hist +4‎ Stephen Baldwin ‎No edit summary
• 15:4315:43, 26 March 2007 diff hist +128‎ Stephen Baldwin ‎No edit summary
• 15:4015:40, 26 March 2007 diff hist +3‎ Bill Agate ‎No edit summary
• 15:3915:39, 26 March 2007 diff hist +63‎ Bill Agate ‎No edit summary
• 11:1011:10, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1‎ Harry Cockerill ‎No edit summary
• 11:1011:10, 26 March 2007 diff hist +707‎ N Harry Cockerill ‎ New page: '''Harry Cockerill:''' was a Yorkshire farmer who played for the local dances and his piano-accordions were kept in a barn on special shelves that he had built for them.  His styl...
• 11:0811:08, 26 March 2007 diff hist +662‎ Packie Manus Byrne ‎No edit summary
• 11:0611:06, 26 March 2007 diff hist +780‎ N Willie Beattie ‎ New page: '''Willie Beattie:''' lives in a house which stands on the side of the B6357, which runs through Liddesdale and is only two fields away from Cumbria.  It turned out that Willie had pr...
• 11:0411:04, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,430‎ N Jimmy McBeath ‎ New page: '''Jimmy McBeath:''' was born in Portsoy, Banffshire, in 1894.  Having left school at 13, he was fee’d at St Brandon’s Fair to a farm in the parish of Deskford.  According to...
• 11:0211:02, 26 March 2007 diff hist +830‎ Frank Hinchliffe ‎No edit summary
• 11:0011:00, 26 March 2007 diff hist +721‎ N Tom Newman ‎ New page: '''George ‘Tom’ Newman:''' was in his 90th year when I met him and, sadly, I only knew him for the last six months of his life.  Originally from Faringdon, he was living in a smal...
• 10:5910:59, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,466‎ N Bill Whiting ‎ New page: '''Bill Whiting:''' lived in Longcot, Wiltshire, in a bungalow at the end of a quiet close, an ideal place to record.  Bill had been born in 1891 and, much to my amazement, not on...
• 10:5810:58, 26 March 2007 diff hist +8‎ Johnny Doughty ‎No edit summary
• 10:5710:57, 26 March 2007 diff hist +6‎ Johnny Doughty ‎No edit summary
• 10:5610:56, 26 March 2007 diff hist +2,435‎ N Johnny Doughty ‎ New page: '''Johnny Doughty:''' had been born in 1903 in Brighton, in a cottage now demolished, in Wellington Place, then the centre of the town’s fishing industry and most of his youth was spent ...
• 10:5510:55, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,459‎ N Bob Blake ‎ New page: '''Bob Blake:''' although thought of as a Sussex singer, he was, in fact, born in Tooting, south London, in 1908 and did not move to Sussex until he was nineteen.  His father, a f...
• 10:5410:54, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,689‎ N Harry Upton ‎ New page: '''Harry Upton:''' was another well-known Sussex singer who lived a few miles from George Spicer’s home.  By trade he was a cowman - retired - and had known George from working on n...
• 10:5310:53, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,083‎ N Jack Goodban ‎ New page: ''Jack Goodban:''' from Dover, had a small but extremely interesting repertoire.  When Mike Yates first met him, Jack was helping a neighbour put up fence poles in a field that border...
• 10:5110:51, 26 March 2007 diff hist +245‎ N Bill Agate ‎ New page: '''Bill Agate:''' lived near Rusper and then moved to Balcombe, Sussex.  He used to play mouthorgan with Scan Tester and often attended the ''Songswappers Club'' in Horsham in lat...
• 10:5010:50, 26 March 2007 diff hist +17‎ Music ‎ →‎Traditional Players
• 10:4910:49, 26 March 2007 diff hist +175‎ N Jack Arnoll ‎ New page: '''Jack Arnoll:''' was born about 1892 and lived in Sussex, ‘over Balcombe way’.  ''The Oak and the Ash'' may be the only song he knew - or would sing in company.
• 10:4810:48, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,977‎ N Louie Saunders ‎ New page: '''Louie Saunders:''' was born in Woolwich, London on 6 June 1914 where her father worked at Woolwich Arsenal.  The family was living in West London, around Ladbrooke Grove in the Thi...
• 10:4610:46, 26 March 2007 diff hist +21‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 10:4410:44, 26 March 2007 diff hist +2,782‎ N Scan Tester ‎ New page: '''Lewis ‘Scan’ Tester:''' was born on 7 September 1886 at Chelwood Common, Sussex.  He grew up in a public house when his father took ''The Green Man'' at Horsted Keynes and ...
• 10:4110:41, 26 March 2007 diff hist +1,686‎ N Cyril Philips ‎ New page: '''Cyril Phillips:''' was born on 5 November 1911 in Dorset.  While he was still a small boy his father moved their entire farm by train to Firle in Sussex.  Cyril left s...
• 10:3910:39, 26 March 2007 diff hist +358‎ N Harry Holman ‎ New page: '''Harry Holman:''' was born in 1888 and lived in Copthorne, Sussex, where his family had been farming for generations.  A part-time gardener, and potman at ''The Cherry Tree'', h...
• 10:3710:37, 26 March 2007 diff hist +2,024‎ N Jim 'Brick' Harber ‎ New page: '''Jim ‘Brick’ Harber:''' was not truly a Sussex man, having been born in Worcesteshire and moved to Tilgate Forest with his gamekeeper father when he was about six years old.&nbsp...

25 March 2007

• 17:5517:55, 25 March 2007 diff hist +38‎ George Spicer ‎No edit summary
• 17:5117:51, 25 March 2007 diff hist +2,075‎ George Spicer ‎No edit summary
• 17:4917:49, 25 March 2007 diff hist +8‎ George 'Pop' Maynard ‎No edit summary
• 17:4717:47, 25 March 2007 diff hist +1,116‎ N Ted and Bet Porter ‎ New page: '''Ted Porter:''' (born 1901 and died aged 76) and his wife Annie (Bet), who came from Mayfield, were engaged in the chicken fattening business, an industry started in this area in the 18t...
• 17:4717:47, 25 March 2007 diff hist +4‎ Song ‎ →‎Traditional Singers
• 17:4517:45, 25 March 2007 diff hist +1,116‎ N Ted & Bet Porter ‎ New page: '''Ted Porter:''' (born 1901 and died aged 76) and his wife Annie (Bet), who came from Mayfield, were engaged in the chicken fattening business, an industry started in this area in the 18t... current
• 17:4217:42, 25 March 2007 diff hist +36‎ George 'Pop' Maynard ‎No edit summary
• 17:4117:41, 25 March 2007 diff hist +1,649‎ N George 'Pop' Maynard ‎ New page: '''George ‘Pop’ Maynard:''' was born in Smallfield, Surrey, on Old Christmas Day, 6th January, 1872. In childhood he moved with the family to the next village, Copthorne, on the Surrey...

24 March 2007

• 12:3512:35, 24 March 2007 diff hist +474‎ N Benton Flippen ‎ New page: '''Benton Flippen:''' was born in 1920 and was first influenced as a fiddler by an uncle from Thomasville, NC, who would occasionally visit his parents’ home.  From 1948 onwards Ben...
• 12:3512:35, 24 March 2007 diff hist +3,496‎ Stephen Baldwin ‎No edit summary
• 12:3212:32, 24 March 2007 diff hist +258‎ N Pug Allen ‎ New page: '''L G ’Pug’ Allen:''' Mike Yates, travelling with Paul Brown in the Shenandoah Valley, stayed with Pug Allen and his wife at Stuart’s Draft in Augusta County, VA.  He recorded ...
• 12:3212:32, 24 March 2007 diff hist +2,390‎ Ray Andrews ‎No edit summary
• 12:3012:30, 24 March 2007 diff hist +4,553‎ N Lizzie Higgins ‎ New page: '''Lizzie Higgins:''' was born in the Guest [ghaist = ghost] Row of Aberdeen, an ancient side street which was to vanish under desperately needed slum clearance in the 1950s, leaving behin...
• 12:2912:29, 24 March 2007 diff hist +262‎ N Packie Manus Byrne ‎ New page: '''Packie Manus Byrne:''' Was born in Co Donegal, but lived in England for many years.  Packie had picked up both songs in Donegal, but, like many of his forbears, he had sought work ...
• 12:2812:28, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,491‎ N Tom Lenihan ‎ New page: '''Tom Lenihan:''' (1905-1990) had an amazing memory and, on a number of occasions, after a little probing, faultlessly remembered and sang a song which he said he had not sung for some 40...
• 12:2712:27, 24 March 2007 diff hist +1,367‎ N Maggie Murphy ‎ New page: '''Maggie Murphy:''' was born in Tempo, Co Fermanagh, and has lived in and around that area all her life.  Her singing was first recorded for the BBC in 1952 by Seán O'Boyle and Pete...
• 12:2712:27, 24 March 2007 diff hist +709‎ N Philip McDermott ‎ New page: '''Philip McDermott:''' was born in 1932 in the house where he lives now in Newtownbutler, Co Fermanagh.  His father was a farm labourer and Philip was a general labourer in quarries ...
• 12:2612:26, 24 March 2007 diff hist +434‎ N Mary Delaney ‎ New page: '''Mary Delaney:''' originally from Co Tipperary, moved from west to east, right across London and even into various flats from time to time in order to give her children a better educatio...