Info Req: Saddleworth (Yorks) area

Subject: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Don
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:39 PM

Yet another Q&A. Is Greenfield in the area of Saddleworth a village/ hamlet/ megalopolis? Must be correct for liner notes, y'know.

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 02:14 AM

better than I will answer that question Don I think its a village but its now joined to Uppermill so locals could call it anything! by the way I only got your test message anything else you tried to send didnt get through

Sue

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:30 AM

Don

Try dropping a PM to Alio, she lives in Greenfield and is the chairman of the Saddlworth Acoustic Folk Roots Festival (SAFRA)which is held on the 3rd weekend in July each year and is based in Uppermill. I think that there is still a difference between the two villages(although as Rabbit indicates because of expansion they are starting to merge) There is still clear land between the two and as such they are separate places

Raggy

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:32 AM

Rabbit ....... you're a naughty girl, I might have to smack your legs before I give you my babies

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 04:44 PM

oooo please!!

Don your CD/ tape has arrived I like both and am very happy with your version of my song though its annoying me now as your tune reminds me of somehting and I cant remember what. Thanks for your nice comments too - like I said the CD is is only done for me to remember tunes and because occassionally people ask me for my songs.

Looking forward to hearing your new CD

Sue

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 04:53 PM

Don if you sign up for mudcat ( its simple and free) rather than coming on as a guest we can PM through it quite easily just put on this thread what your Mudcat name is unless you use DONHIRST!!

Sue

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 05:20 PM

Yorks??
No, it's in Lancashire!

And this site (click) says that Greenfield is a village.

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 04:06 AM

Noreen

The second paragraph starts " Saddleworth is an area, an old Yorkshire Parish ..........."
Now much as I like winding people up, even I have to admit that historically Saddleworth is part of Yorkshire, even if it is on the Lancashire side of the Pennines. Some little toe-rag down in Whitehall back in the 70's decided that he would alter more than a 1000 years of history and put it within the electoral of Oldham .. He even tried to tell me that I lived in "Greater Manchester" and not my beloved County Palatine of Lancashire, of course I choose not to believe him and a Friend (Ted Edwards) and I founded the Free Lancastrian Army, we had an Air Arm (Ted's hang glider) and a Fleet (my kayak)together with a transport division (Ted's Moggie 1000, ex GPO van)

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 12:45 PM

I bet everyone was shaking in their boots! ooops sorry forgot you didnt have any!

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Don
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 11:56 PM

Sue,
Glad stuff got through. Ignore query on other thread. I based the tune in part, "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle, an ex-Scot living here, which he in turn got from something else - and round it goes! Don't know if his song is known off-shore. The chorus is mine. Shall work out soon how to do a PM. And thanks for the info about Greenfield. Our family always thought the village had been flooded.
Don

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 06:17 AM

Hi Don yes Eric Bogle is well known over here and is very popular, in fact last year he started his tour by playing at Saddleworth festival and my partner Jim and I opened the concert he was appearing in - like you say small world. I also met up with a group called poms from oz ( or however its spelt) we are trying to sort out about us doing a concert together as I do songs in sign language and they are doing one of their songs in auslan

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,raggytash
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:09 AM

Oy Rabbit, whats this about Jim being your partner, I thought you wanted my babies

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:29 AM

Don

On Wednesday the local paper repoted that a local writer here in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (where Sue and I both live)has just published a book called "Unsolved Yorkshire Murders"
Published by Wharncliffe Books a section concerns the Moorcock Inn Murders, did you know that a £300 reward was put up to trace the killer.
The paper also published a photograph of the Moorcock taken some years ago, although it is not specific.If Sue has your address, or you PM me I will put the article in the post

Subject: RE: Info rqd: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:33 AM

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk/0785.html

Hopefully this link will take you to a page where you can buy the book should you wish

Subject: RE: Info Req: Saddleworth (Yorks) area
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 02:15 AM

Raggy - you know its your babies I want - I told you that in that in the summer! I want Paddy's babies too and you'd think owning a sweet shop he might be more forth coming but still no babies - I was going to have Jims babies but he gave them to another - sniff sniff