"...An' scuse me, when aw wis there,
They bottl'd up maw tawk, sor.
Not oney that they'll keep it fresh
For futor ginoraishins"
Chater's Illustrated Annual, 1885, p.8
KARAOKE SECTION
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'The Lambton Worm'
'Bobby Shaftoe'
'Wet Weshin Day'
'The Putter'
'The Blaydon Races'
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Connie Pickard (Leadgate) reading Tommy Armstrong's 'Trimdon Grange Explosion'
Ken Green (Gosforth) reading his poem 'Susan'
Gwen Hobson (Jarrow) reading extract from Edward Chicken's 'Pitman's Wedding'
David James (Brancepeth Colliery) on iron pyrites in the mine
Frank Fawcett on marbles, re Jesmond 1910
Donna Hill (Hylton) - 'The cauld lad of Hylton Castle'
John Patrickson (Dawdon Colliery) - crab fishing
Daniel Swan (Parkside, Seaham) - fishing in Seaham
Allen Crawford (Stanley) - Tommy Armstrong
Dave Bowen (Darlington) - The Lengthman
spring flowers (F.M., Ashington)
the sneck game (Durham City)
Dave Bowen (Darlington) - hog
Meg Stephenson (North Shields) - Family Holiday
Gordon Patrickson (Seaham) - the tale of a candle
John Williams (Haswell) - a pit ghost
John Williams (Haswell) - pit ponies
Gordon Patrickson (Seaham) - walking the returns
James Richardson (Easington Colliery) - Xmas presents
Charles Trelogan (New Herrington) - down the lonnin
Weardale - extract from Wm Eggleston read by Alan Rutherford
Jack Smith age 94 (Hendon) - talking to Nat Sutheran in 1974
Jack Smith (continued)
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