Tin mining in Cornwall has been really important to me and if I had learned about it in school I would have had a head start, but in Lingfield, Surrey, we had Singing Together, May pole Dancing, country Dancing and, becuase it had it's own tradition of Bonfires and Bonfire Societies like Lewes, Lots about that. Out of School though, I lived 4 houses away from Ken Stubbs the eminent Folk Song Collector and was forever round his house as his daughter and I were good friends and about the same age, so heard many of the people who he collected from when they came to his house to sing for him. Then I went to Oxted Grammar School where I was told by my music teacher, Mr Oram, that folk songs were not proper songs and had no value and that the instruments I played were folk instruments and not proper ones.