Lyr Req: Walter Pardon

Subject: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: r.padgett
Date: 06 Apr 26 - 11:25 AM

Walter Pardon i saw in 1977 at Whitby folk week ~ online Rod Stradling had his mustrad site which has disappeared no doubt due to Rod's own death

Has the site and details been saved?

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: Reinhard
Date: 06 Apr 26 - 01:42 PM

A copy of Rod's site is at https://mustrad.mainlynorfolk.info/, so Walter Pardon's lyrics are available.

From my point of view this site copy is a stopgap to keep the contents available; I'm busy enough with Mainly Norfolk - which has a somewhat different focus as a combined discography and song index - to do more with it. Others have shown interest though to have it available as a living site open for expansions and I believe they will in due time reopen it at the old address.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: r.padgett
Date: 06 Apr 26 - 02:20 PM

Thanks Reinhard ~ good to know ~

Walter had a number of vinyl and CDs made and a lot of notes (I have) ~ yes I got the impression Veteran records would do some thing towards archiving/making the material available

Onwards with your sites!

Ray (uk)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Apr 26 - 02:51 PM

Reinhard is right. We need soneone to take the reins where Rod Stradling left off...... but where is someone with the commitment, skill, ability, knowledge and enthusiasm that Rod brought to the job. It's a big ask.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: r.padgett
Date: 07 Apr 26 - 02:16 AM

Good question Vic Smith

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Apr 26 - 10:23 AM

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: r.padgett
Date: 11 Apr 26 - 11:47 AM

I think Jim Carroll is very knowledgeable regarding Walter Pardon but he does not I believe have the skills to follow Rod Stradling's IT skills for what is needed here Dick

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Apr 26 - 08:46 AM

Much of Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzies collection, including tapes, photographs, and items like a dancing doll made by Pardon, is held by the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust and the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).
A copy of Rod's site is at https://mustrad.mainlynorfolk.info/, so Walter Pardon's lyrics are available

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Walter Pardon
From: r.padgett
Date: 12 Apr 26 - 01:06 PM

Walter William Pardon lived all his life in the redbrick farm workers' cottage where he was born on 4th March 1914, in the village of Knapton, Norfolk. His parents were Thomas Pardon (1877-1957) and Emily, née Gee (1874-1953). Photo by Mike Yates All the male members of his family, on both sides, had been farm workers of one kind or another for as far back as anyone could remember, so young Walter was unusual in that he was apprenticed at fourteen to a carpenter in the village of Paston, and spent all his working life as a carpenter, interrupted by four years in the army (again as a carpenter, at Aldershot) during the Second World War.

from mustrad site as indicted by Dick above

Ray