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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
Not All In The Mind
We met Barbara at one of our Your Stories In Song events at Hampden Park Library. She told us this...
Mary Fildes
At Battle library we met a descendant of Mary Fildes who told us about her. Mary was president of...
Tom Hendrix’s Wall
Te-lah-nay's Wall - Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall We, Milton Hide (Jim and Jo) were lucky...
Paddling Along
We (Milton Hide) were pleased to work with the children of Grovelands School as part of Hailsham...
Boy from the Estate
A boy from the council estate got to the top of the corporate tree. My gosh it wasn't for me!...
Accident Annie
Accident Annie She spilt her drink down her skirt And found it was because she was a flirt Never...
Trug
The story of the Sussex Trug, started by Thomas Smith in Herstmonceux and still made in...
The Pack
Deep in the forests of history there lives a beast. From time to time it would meet with its wise...
Ron Moore
Ronald Joseph Moore – our Uncle Ron – who died aged 90 in 2020, was a carpenter by trade, spending...
Rushlake Green Art Show and Flower Show – 1950 to 2024 One Family’s Involvement
Sent in by Shirley Austin Ivon Austin moved to Hunton’s Farm in 1945 after the war and married...
Dartford Crossing
Written a s a suggestion for a song inspiration in our Audience Book at Colindale Barnet Folk Club...
Dick Turpin in Enfield
Written in our Audience Book, Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024. “The Rose and Crown in...
Leefe Robinson VC
written in our Audience Book at Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024 ”The story of Leefe Robinson...
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...
Liquid Gold
Liquid gold - Claire and Jade’s Song Writing idea Possible Title of song “Liquid Gold” Due to...
A whole new word?
A whole new world is the story of what would have happened to Aladdin if he were not the one to...
Torn between 2 countries
I lived 20 years in New Zealand, was brought up in the UK. When i'm in one I long for the other....
The Great Storm of ’87
This story was contributed at our Your Stories In Song event at Pickhams in June 2024. The story...
Significant flights
There is a story in the news today about a man being charged after flying from London to New York...
Will o the wisp
Will o the wisp - Marsh gas, strange lights over the marsh suggestion from audience at An...
Walter Murray
Walter Murray - Naturalist, Horam headmaster, Radio presenter and journalist. READ MORE: Walter...
Lindisfarne
The Viking attack on Lindisfarne. JS - Crowborough U3A, 15/2/24...
Trugs
Song Idea - Sussex trug making anon Summer Trifle Festival 2023 Further reading:...
This Land – poem
May the green land be ours Protect it as we do ourselves Nurture the soil Sprinkle with stardust...
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 Rebel Jack Cade
A rebellion in 1450, led by Jack Cade ("Captain of Kent")marched on London to force the government...
The Mother In Law From Heaven
suggestion from audience at An Evening with Milton Hide, 13/9/23 part of Hailsham Festival ...
The Mackintosh Rebellion – Eastbourne
In 1929, Eastbourne was pretty much the last seaside resort to incur charges on the beach for...
The Long Man
I love history and archaeology so a song about the 'Long man of Wilmington' would be good ...
Terry Fox
Terry Fox. He was a young man with cancer he had a leg amputee and then ran across Canada to raise...
Skeletons
The two skeletons in the well - Old Curiosity Shop, Broadstairs. Anon Broadstairs Folk Week 2023...
Scallop
I would love to hear a song about Maggie Hambling's Scallop Sculpture on Aldeburgh beach. Andrew...
Saying
'If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done' - would make a good song! JS -...
Royal Connections
My Mum and uncle used to play with Charles and Anne on the beach outside the Queen Mother's...
Roaming
Roaming in the forest with my dog. Camping overnight without a tent. Walking until my dog is so...
First record
Write a song based on the first records that people bought. Mine were Big Bad John (Jimmy Dean)...
Punctuation
Interrobang. Shady characters. A song about punctuation - Mister Spektor. Anon Llantrisant Folk...
Poet
Four years ago I started writing poems and I had just joined Hailsham 95.9FM. I published Poems To...
Picasso at Chiddingly
Farleys House at Chiddingly is known as the home of the surrealists. Pablo Picasso stayed in 1950...
Old Man Of Coniston
Across the estuary from Arnside - you have your backs to it as you play now - is the Old Man of...
Oasthouse
I've lived in East Sussex (Isfield) all my life and never heard anyone write a song about an...
Northeye
The ancient village of Northeye on Pevensey Marsh. Graeme Keane of WDC has stories. Anon Summer...
Nan’s Sayings
[About Dance For You For Tuppence] You were singing about my Nan except she came from Lancashire -...
Mysterious Tracks
The fox visits our garden nightly. He leaves a track like a bicycle. I didn't know it was the fox....
Mussel Picking
Mussel picking on the welsh sound Read:...
Mum!
I was a baby, I nearly died. My Dad lived away, my Mum was left to cope with us. My Mum had...
Mother’s saying
When ever I took a tarty girl home my mother would always say "you can always stoop down and pick...
Margery Polley
Margery Polley of Pembury, martyred at Tonbridge 1557 (Maryan persecutions) Suggested at Tenterden...
Maid in St James
My grandmother came from a Scottish border town, aged 18, to work as a kitchen maid in St James...
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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