Local songs, Cheshire

Subject: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 23 Nov 19 - 07:15 AM

Chester song at twilight.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 01:10 PM

... when the lights are low,
and the evening shadows
softly come and go ...

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 01:49 PM

Local song, Norfolk (Sid Kipper's composition)

In Cheshire there's cheese and in Yorkshire there's pud,
But my wife's old dumplings are Norfolk and good.

Norfolk and good, Norfolk and good.
We are the boys who are Norfolk and good.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 02:07 PM

Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese...

Above the line, no?

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Nov 19 - 07:04 PM

Aye, I wondered about that!
"I'm sitting at a railroad station, gotta ticket for my destinayshu-un" - Crewe song? My daughter was born in Crewe.....but in a hospital, not on a railway platform!

And WELCOME BACK TO SENOFOU! Been away too long!

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 03:41 AM

Well I thought corny jokes belonged below the line, but move it and annoy people who want sense if you like.
Definitely
Here's to Cheshire (I live only a couple of miles from the apple trees mentioned in that song - don't think the strawberries are still there, a couple of local fruit farmers have retired recently).
How many of the Kipper's place names are real?

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 06:37 AM

It was Widnes, not Crewe. They had a plaque for about 2 days before someone nicked it!

Wizard of Alderley Edge by Pete Coe is my favourite Cheshire song.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 08:15 AM

Mo, which Norfolk place names are you wondering about? If you could list a few, I could verify them!

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 08:52 AM

Yes, welcome back, Eliza. Lovely to see you :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 09:29 AM

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember them talking or singing about places that seem as improbable as some that you do find on a map.
DtG, now you're being serious.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 09:31 AM

How very kind, Dave and Tattie! I'm just tentatively creeping in and posting on what I consider 'safe' threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 09:32 AM

Me? Serious? Never!

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 12:05 PM

What about Ralph McTell's "The Ches-hiring Fair"?

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 12:09 PM

Then there is the Hitchcock film.


North by Northwich...

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:13 AM

An, (a naturalised Cheshire singer) sings a song with a chorus "sing high, sing low, sing fare you well my dear".
So, as Dave has brought this thread back below the line I'll offer "Joseph Taylor", to bounce it upwards again.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 02:53 PM

There is a nice tune called Namptwich Fair (the old name for Nantwich) - which is where we lived while in Cheshire. Don't know if it has words.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:15 PM

Any song by the Wrecking Crewe.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:23 PM

You can keep your Hatton.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:39 PM

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Hoole Stop The Rain".

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:49 PM

Now in Trafford, Greater Manchester, but originally in Cheshire:- "Love for Sale"

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 03:47 PM

Doug, I think you take the prize. How many people have heard of Hoole?
Tattie, don't know about words but there is a dance (published in one of the old dancing masters Walsh? Thompson? I have a card with the instructions but I've not put the date or publisher). Seems there are 2 tunes, but I've not heard the second one played. In Nantwich sessions they always play St Georges Day to follow Nantwich Fair.

This thread is yo-yoing between BS & music!

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 05:08 PM

Knutsford city limits?

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 28 Nov 19 - 05:50 PM

You've lost me there, Nigel.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 09:21 AM

Knutsford city limits?

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You've lost me there, Nigel.

Knutsford ~ Nutbush




We are havin' a Hooton Annie now.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Thompson
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 10:56 AM

What's this doing in BS?

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: MikeL2
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 02:33 PM

Hi Tattie

Leighton Hospital ??

We Know it so well....our grand sons and our Great grand sons and daughters were all born there.

MY wife and I have been there so many times that they all think we work
there.!!!!

Cheers Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 03:54 PM

Doug !!!!

Half of Trafford used to be in the County Palatine of Lancashire.

Admittedly half was down south in Cheshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 03:57 PM

On a more serious note I think Pete Coe is a Cheshire man, he may be able to assist in this.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 05:47 PM

It wasn't Trafford that I was claiming was in Cheshire, Raggy - just Sale, which stops at the south bank of the River Mersey.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 Nov 19 - 06:09 PM

Duh! Sorry Doug.

In my defence drink has been taken.

One of the 'problems' of being on the West coast of Ireland!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 12:05 PM

"What's this doing in BS?"
Well the 1st post wasn't serious.
If any mod thinks the balance has swung enough to mean it belongs up there, please move it. But I thought if I started up there I'd have complaints on that score.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Dec 19 - 12:07 PM

If so please retitle it "BS? Local Cheshire songs"

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 11:36 AM

We can probably turn any thread into BS if we try hard enough :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: John J
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 11:58 AM

I don't think we'd have to try too hard Dave!

'Cheshire is for me,
All thy company,
Old and young they praises sung,
Cheshire for me'

Written by Gerry Ryder methinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 09:25 PM

MikeL2, yes, Leighton Hospital it was: my wee baby is now 42 years old! My husband worked at Reaseheath Agricultural College.

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: MikeL2
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 09:28 AM

hi Tattie....."I know it So Well...".

Iived in Rudheath for a few years.

Cheshire born and Cheshire bred...strong in the arm and weak in the head

Regards

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 06:55 PM

Do they have to be folk songs or is country & Weston* OK?

*(either Runcorn, Crewe or Macclesfield)


DC

Subject: RE: BS: Local songs, Cheshire
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 19 - 07:08 PM

ouch ouch ouch