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Thread #125464   Message #2909143
Posted By: *#1 PEASANT*
18-May-10 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Cullercoats Bay
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cullercoats Bay
Found the Owen Brannigan will get it downstairs and transcribe

45 Rpm E.M. I Records
Folk Songs From Northumbria
Owen Brannigan, Bass, With Gerald Moore, Piano
7EG 8551
Side I track 2

Cullercoats Bay

(Tyneside arrr. Robson)

Words and music by a Northumbrian schoolmaster, J. G. Robson, who incidentally, was born in the same village as myself not very far from Cullercoats Bay. Alas the small white houses where fisher-folk bide were demolished last yera (1959) despite tremendous local opposition. However, you can still buy lobsters and crabs, and he old lifeboat is still ready and waiting in the Ancient Harbour which modern ideas have as yet failed to alter.

And thats all he wrote.....

Conrad