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On the treadmill: Hard labour at Gloucester Prison

Anthony Foard MAY 22, 2017 AT 3:32 PM
Hullo, I happened upon your site whilst trying to track down a song I heard performed by Ron Taylor and Jeff Gillett several years ago about the Gloucester Gaol treadmill. I wonder if anyone knows (of) it and could point me in the direction of words and tune? The chorus ends with “and we wear the county colours of the yellow and the blue”. I think it’s a contemporary take on the historic facts – it certainly ties in very closely with the details herein. Thanks in anticipation, and thanks also for a most informative piece of scholarship.

REPLY Jill Evans MAY 23, 2017 AT 8:56 AM
Hello! The song is called “The County Livery”, and it is about doing time in Horsley House of Correction, which was built at the same time as Gloucester County Prison and had the same regime. It was published by Thomas Willey in Cheltenham. It is in Roy Palmer’s book, “The Folklore of Gloucestershire”, in chapter 9, “Going For A Song”. In my edition, published by Westcountry Books in 1994, the lyrics are written out in full on page 240. I hope that helps.

County Livery