G'day again;

Susanne (skw): Lloyd came to Australia under one of the Commonwealth experience/ assistance programmes, between the wars ... as a ypung bloke. He worked out on cattle and sheep stations and heard te old songs - but did not collect ... or even note them down. He was not then the folklorist that he became in later life.

In the 1950s, working at the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) on the Workers' Songs Project, he gained access to the carbon copies of the typed out words of the field-collected material of John Meredith, Nancy Stewart and Russell Ward. Drawing on distant memories of Australia ... and intense experience of British Song ... he recreated the past in the light of his present.

Interesting stuff ... but prone to get you into a barney in no time around the local folkies.

Regards

Bob Bolton