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Not All In The Mind

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 amazing story of how she finally got to the...

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Mary Fildes

Mary Fildes

At Battle library we met a descendant of Mary Fildes who told us about her. Mary was president of the Manchester Female Reform Society in 1819, and...

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Boy from the Estate

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! Suggestion by Mark Austin at the Your Stories In Song...

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Accident Annie

Accident Annie

Accident Annie She spilt her drink down her skirt And found it was because she was a flirt Never looking at what she should It was a case of what...

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Trug

Trug

The story of the Sussex Trug, started by Thomas Smith in Herstmonceux and still made in Herstmonceux today. Suggested by a member of the audience at...

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Ron Moore

Ron Moore

Ronald Joseph Moore – our Uncle Ron – who died aged 90 in 2020, was a carpenter by trade, spending his working life at Hellingly Hospital.  He had...

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Dick Turpin in Enfield

Dick Turpin in Enfield

Written in our Audience Book, Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024. “The Rose and Crown in Enfield, Clay Hill…Dick Turpin was said to have visited...

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Leefe Robinson VC

Leefe Robinson VC

written in our Audience Book at Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024 ”The story of Leefe Robinson VC, war hero who died at Stanmore, NW London” He...

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Doctor Crippen

Doctor Crippen

This audience member came to see us at Hailsham Library in July 2024 and suggested we write song based on the story of a famous murderer who lived...

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