Legends
Your Stories In Song
Thanks go to everyone who has submitted a story. We hope you find inspiration here for your own creative project, be it songwriting, poetry, prose, visual art, dance or drama. Please read our Ts & Cs HERE
Tom Hendrix’s Wall
Te-lah-nay's Wall - Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall We, Milton Hide (Jim and Jo) were lucky...
The Pack
Deep in the forests of history there lives a beast. From time to time it would meet with its wise...
Dick Turpin in Enfield
Written in our Audience Book, Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024. “The Rose and Crown in...
Doctor Crippen
This audience member came to see us at Hailsham Library in July 2024 and suggested we write song...
Molly Mothballs
This book was given to us by Amy's Granddaughter, Wendy, hoping that we could find inspiration in...
Will o the wisp
Will o the wisp - Marsh gas, strange lights over the marsh suggestion from audience at An...
The Return of the Chough to Kent
The return of the chough to kent (a jackdaw sized corvid with red feet and bill) It's been...
The Long Man
I love history and archaeology so a song about the 'Long man of Wilmington' would be good ...
Skeletons
The two skeletons in the well - Old Curiosity Shop, Broadstairs. Anon Broadstairs Folk Week 2023...
Old Man Of Coniston
Across the estuary from Arnside - you have your backs to it as you play now - is the Old Man of...
Jester
Dickie Pearce - last court jester, fell off castle battlements, got state burial. Anon...
Hester’s Way
Hester's Way (Cheltenham) Story in the press in 1960s that Hester was a witch and her ghost can...
Brixham Angels
The story of the Brixham Angels - a storm at sea, fires lit by families on the beach to guide the...
Dashing Lady
The ghost of Alice Bright Lane, Crowborough JS - Crowborough U3A, 15/2/24 --------- Quote from...
Nan Tuck
“According to local legend, the ghost of Nan Tuck, a woman from Rotherfield who allegedly poisoned...
Milton Hide are singer-songwriters Jim and Josie Tipler.
Their songs are story based and they have been touring the UK with their Audience Book to gather new song inspirations. They are now working on “Your Stories In Song” with the Summer Trifle group, gathering stories in Wealden – a project funded by the National Lottery.
Local legends, characters, landscape features – any story you have to share and that might be immortalised as a story in song is welcome.
Once the songs are written, the duo intend to do a return tour. The hope is that artists, musicians and writers will also create new works based on the stories stored in the archive below.
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