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Thread #1714   Message #2556209
Posted By: Dennis the Elder
03-Feb-09 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Springhill Disaster/Ballad of Springhill
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Springhill Disaster
Hi Ian,

Working in Clowne last week must have fuddled my brain.
I know many of the 80 who died in the Creswell mine came from Clowne and the disaster I believe is remembered in a Chapel there.

Must admit I was confused by the various pieces of information I gathered as to who actually wrote the song and obviously came to the wrong conclusion, I believe that both Pete and Peggy sang the song, as well as, and with Ewan McColl.

Did he complete his song about the Creswell Colliery Disaster? I seem to believe he may have written or at least sung a a song about Cresford and a mining disaster there, but cannot recollect Creswell song?