"Wasn't Hull one of the towns in that old folk (English!) song about the ravages that Industrial England was subject to ...

think it had the phrase Hartford, something and Hull (as a pun on Hell)..."

"Dalesman's Litany".

Refrain:- "From Hull, and Halifax and Hell, Good Lord deliver me"

It's in the DT.

282, when you talk about folk music roots, yours are the same as ours, except that ours are about 600 years deeper.

Don T.