G'day Charlie Noble,

" ... Bob, I'm reworking C. Fox Smith's poem "A Wool Fleet Chorus" as a shanty; are you familar with it?"

I am not familiar with that one - so I had better look it up!

BTW: Since I got involved in the concertinas & sailors fracas above ... I have one concertina for which I have some past history: a nice Lachenal 22-key, G/C (with a few extra semitones) Anglo. I know that this one was owned by the (~) 1920s / '30s manager of the Bellbird Coal Mine, up in the Hunter Valley - the scene of a notable mine disater around 1924. The manager was a possible distant relative of your lot - John Noble. Unfortunately I know little more as someone else was supposed to be researching the family, but I have never seen the reslt.

Regards,

Bob Bolton