My memory has dimmed after all these years, but I recall Albert Shaw as being a fairly elderly singer with a fine line in bawdy music hall type songs. A singaround which I used to go to in the early seventies invited him to be their guest. Again, I can't remember much about the night, but I do remember him singing Miss Tickle Toby's and several other songs in similar vein. BTW., someone was wondering if he was a one armed blacksmith. That, I think would have been Walter Greaves, another old singer who emerged at around the same time, and who I think came from Leeds. Check English Folk Poetry: Structure & Meaning by Roger DeV Renwick for some details on Walter.
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