Notes by A. L. Lloyd and The Oldham Tinkers; Whilst A. L. Lloyd contributed to the notes on the album, he may not have contributed to the notes on every song.

Perhaps he contributed to the notes on some of the traditional songs, for example, The Four Loom Weaver; "The song, originally called The Poor Cotton Wayver, was published on a broadsheet during the depression years that followed the close of the Napoleonic Wars. It’s one of the striking documents of the Industrial Revolution. In a shortened and re-made form, it was popularised by Ewan MacColl some fifty years ago, in the earliest days of the folk song revival, and that is the form in which it is sung here."

Incidentally, I was at university in Manchester at the same time as Gerry Kearns. And my friend took exactly the same course and modules as Gerry and they attended the same lectures for three years.