Thanks to various people for checking the source of Manchester Rambler tune for me. Haydn's 94th sounds no less likely than the 93rd, but I'll have a listen tonight and see if I can spot it.

Just on the score of Old Kinder Scout and the moors all about. The Peak District was a favourite playground of mine when I was younger, and I have actually camped on Crowden. This though was not the one MacColl mentions which, if I remember correctly, is quite a way into the mountains, but an idylically situated campsite just off the A628.

I also took part in the 60th anniversary of the mass trespass. For some reason we didn't start at Bowden Bridge, where the original march set off, but from a car park in the middle of Hayfield. Whatever, we were addressed at the start by Benny Rothman, who also led us as far as Bowden Bridge. He would have been about 80 by this time, so that was about as much as he could manage. Even so, it was an extremely touching occasion.

Nowadays, I try not to get too wound up about the way the poor were treated by the ruling class. But the thought of all those acres of open moorland lying empty thanks to some loaded act of parliament, while the people the grouse shooters screwed their money from were confined to the crumbling ruins and the smoke and fumes and sewers of Salford and Sheffield still leaves me choking with rage.