Charlie Bridger

Charlie Bridger, singer and musician, Stone-in-Oxney, Kent. Born 1913.

Charlie Bridger: I went to visit Charlie at his home in Kent because I had been told about his superb version of the song Three Maidens a-Milking Did Go (available on the veteran CD Down in the Fields VTC4CD.  Two other songs, The Folkestone Murder and The Zulu Wars, will be reissued on future Veteran CDs).  Charlie had worked for most of his life at a near-by stone quarry and I am sorry that I only managed to see him on one occasion.

Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs The Birds Upon the Tree (MTCD333)