A service from the British Library allows users to search through an online map of Dorset for old recordings of songs and stories.

Broadwindsor boasts more than 50 pieces recorded by the Lancashire-based folk song collectors Nick and Mally Dow. Performers include 'Flash' Phelps, Doug Phillips, Norman House and Dick Corbett.

On the British Library's map for Traditional Music, you can hear Dick Corbett sing round about 30 songs in what the notes correctly identify as a "Lively pub atmosphere."

Beaminster boasts even more recordings, from Fred Chubb, Mrs Fowler, Beaminster Band member Bill House and his son Norman, a retired forestry worker and resident of Newtown. Among the rarer songs performed by Norman House is the true and scary Murder at North Perrott.

Other places and people featured include Weymouth (Ivy Sims), Dorchester (Henry Barter and George Hirst), Charminster (Norman Grey – singing Cock-a-doodle-doo in the front of his Ford Anglia in a pub car park), Stratton (Lewis Downton) and Piddletrenthide (Bill Hunt).