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GUEST,Gadaffi Tune Req: British Canal/Waterway Songs (74* d) RE: Tune Req: British Canal/Waterway Songs 15 Nov 07


Certainly Jon Raven was writing and recording songs in the Black Country in the 1970s. Roy Palmer published some of them, I think. John Kirkpatrick recorded a few more.

There was also the Mikron Theatre Company touring the south of England around then, and did a number of albums. I spent a pleasant evening at one of these at the Fox and Hounds at Fleet which backs onto the Basingstoke Canal.

Mick Bisiker also wrote a song about the Wey and Arun Canal, but I haven't heard from him for a long time.

Try googling for Canal Society trusts. I know the Basingstoke Canal used to have one, possibly still does.


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