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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...
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...
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...
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....
Significant flights
There is a story in the news today about a man being charged after flying from London to New York...
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...
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...
Terry Fox
Terry Fox. He was a young man with cancer he had a leg amputee and then ran across Canada to raise...
Scallop
I would love to hear a song about Maggie Hambling's Scallop Sculpture on Aldeburgh beach. Andrew...
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...
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...
Nan’s Sayings
[About Dance For You For Tuppence] You were singing about my Nan except she came from Lancashire -...
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...
Lost in the sea
suggestion from audience at An Evening with Milton Hide, 13/9/23 part of Hailsham Festival Had a...
Lincolnshire Fens
From Brancaster to Boston - found a foreign town in the Lincolnshire Fens Boston:...
Jester
Dickie Pearce - last court jester, fell off castle battlements, got state burial. Anon...
Hop Pickers
As this is a fabulous converted oasthouse, perhaps a story of families hop picking through the...
Grandfather Clem
My Grandfather, Clem, was an artilleryman in the 1st World War. Haunted by memories of riding a...
First Love
When I was five my first love was a six year old boy called Steven. I was sat next to him at...
Factory Workers
I've yet to hear a song about factory workers in a food factory - eg chicken. Lots of people used...
Exploring
William would like to tell you about playing hide and seek on the farm, looking for ancient...
Elvis
I was down a grave in Northern France when I heard of Elvis's death. Anon Written in Milton Hide...
Chiddingly Onion Pie Murderer
suggestion from audience member at An Evening with Milton Hide on 13 Sept 2023, part of Hailsham...
Cheese Rolling
Song subject suggestion in Milton Hide audience book: Cheese rolling at Coopers hill. Anon...
Brixham Angels
The story of the Brixham Angels - a storm at sea, fires lit by families on the beach to guide the...
Born away
The child who was born 50 miles from home Anon Broadstairs Folk Week 2023
Bonfire Societies
Tradition in East Sussex of bonfire societies holding large marches and firework events around 5th...
Birder
I'd love to hear a song about ornithologists / twitchers (there's a big difference!). My dad was...
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Crowborough at Windlesham Manor. His statue was dressed as an elf last...
Nan Tuck
“According to local legend, the ghost of Nan Tuck, a woman from Rotherfield who allegedly poisoned...
Do I Regret?
[As a young Mum, I wrote this poem from my heart. - Debbie Milner] Do I regret, having my children...
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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