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Thread #163854 Message #3913359
Posted By: JP2
26-Mar-18 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: George Butterworth (Musician/collector-died 1916)
Subject: RE: George Butterworth (Musician-died 1916)
As a Shropshire Lad by birth and a Morris Musician I'd heard of George Butterworth but knew vey little about his demise.
Then one day about eight years ago we fetched up in our Motorhone in a town called Doullens to stay the night on an "Aire",a parking space where MHs are allowed to stay.
We wandered up to the Office Touristique and in a leaflet about the Town Hall I noticed the photo of a painting hanging in said same Town Hall of a gentleman quite clearly in Cotswold kit!!!!
Our very own G.B.who fell I believe at Pozieres,near to Doullens.
It's interesting that of all the British Military figures the citizens of Doullens could have chosen they chose a Morris Dancing composer!!
His name,alongside my namesake and great-uncle,Ernest John Price,is commemorated on the great memorial at Thiepval.
I would like to report that we've seen the painting in the flesh but malheureusement the Town Hall works on very restricted opening hours and our visits have never coincided yet!