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Thread #174577 Message #4233295
Posted By: Steve Gardham
21-Dec-25 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: A different Young Banker
Subject: RE: Origins: A different Young Banker
Thanks, Bob and Dick. My own personal opinion based on the commonplace lines is that it is a broadside piece. It's obviously not a complete ballad and the rest of the stanzas would be useful. There is no place in Britain called Tarranton. Terrington is near King's Lynn in Norfolk not that far away from Brigg in Lincolnshire where Orton was recorded by Grainger in 1908. However, we also have Tarrington in Herefordshire. Orton's other songs are also broadside ballads and well-known. Spencer the Rover The Rainbow John Riley Reilly the Fisherman. Newark of course is not very far from Brigg.