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SANDS OF TIME

Wixamtree WIXD104

A Commission from The Greensand Trust’s Sands Of Time Oral History Project see www.thesandmuseum.org

Three songs written from information in transcripts from interviews with people who have worked in, or whose partners have worked in the world-renowned sand industry of Leighton Buzzard.

 

The Engine Boy

Dobbing  

Sand

 

See also Life & Times’ schools website Special Projects pages.

 

SANDS OF TIME

is available by

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MARSTON VALE

A Community Project with the choir of Marston Vale Middle School, Stewartby, Bedfordshire

A celebration of the history, future, traditions and legend of Marston Vale, Bedfordshire

 

E Pericoloso Sporghesi/Non Fumatore

The B&MK*  listen

Brickmaking

Little Italy

The Pits That Scar The Land

Bedfordshire Brickmakers

Man of Clay

Marmalade Polka/John’s Bunion

Jump With The Devil*

Holes & Homes

The Last Hoffmans*

Seven Chimneys/The Stewartby Phorpres

Marston Vale*  listen

 

Limited Edition of 150 Copies

NB: This is not a studio recording but was recorded in the school on mobile recording equipment. The school choir appear on the songs marked with an asterisk.

 

See Life & Times’ schools website Special Projects page for details.

 

MARSTON VALE

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WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT

 

 

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Wixamtree WIX052

A celebration of 250 years of the British canals

 

The Duke of Bridgewater

The Bold Navigators

The Ivel Navigation

A Working Boatie Man

Carrying The Load

Lock Keepers of The Waterways

Narrow Boats To Tow

Push Boys Push

Roses & Castles

A Bit of a Do

The Row Between The Boaters

Finest of Them All

Banbury White Horse/Four Up

Iced In

Until The Cut Runs Dry

A Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Where The Working Boats Went listen

 

WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT

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Also available at:

Foxton Canal Museum

Middle Lock

Gumley Road

Foxton

Leicestershire

LE16 7RA

 

It is music from this CD which won us the FATEA Tradition 09 Award  which…

 

“…is presented to the act that have traditional folk at the root of their sound and use it to inspire new songs, tunes and arrangements.”

 

CHARIVARI

 

 

Reviews

Wixamtree WIX051

Songs of Bedfordshire history, customs, legends etc.

 

Dunstable Downs Midsummer’s Day Song

The Life & Times of Henry Claydon, Highwayman

Plough Monday Song

A Working Boatie Man

Bushels of Brussels/The Felmersham Polka

All In The Wintertime

Fuller’s Earth

One Man’s Morris/Ampthill Sunrise

The Witch of Conger Hill

Charivari/Rough Music

Queen Catherine

Newtown Jig/Keysoe Row

The Ghost of Lady de Grey/The Macabre.

 

CHARIVARI is available by

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SHROPSHIRE IRON

 

 

Reviews

Fellside Recordings FE071 (& FE071/c cassette)

Songs of The Industrial Revolution in 18th Century Shropshire

 

The Most Extraordinary District In The World/Shropshire Iron

Abraham Darby

The Simple Life of a Quaker

Success To All These Learned Men

Lament For Darby

Boys of Bedlam/Bedlam Jig

John Wilkinson

A Furnaceman’s Life

A Bridge of Iron/The Bridge of Iron

Colebrook Dale

The Pride of Englishmen/Contemplate Good Fortune.

 

STRAWPLAIT & BONELACE

 

 

Reviews

Fellside Recordings FE043 (& FE043/c cassette)

Songs of Bedfordshire history, customs, legends etc.

 

One Man’s Morris

The Markyate Highwayman

Brickmaking

The Scots of the Davis Gas Stove Company

Straw Plait

Let’s Go To The Grand

Blockers’ Seaside

The Bonelace Weaver/Bonelace

Bedfordshire Ale

Easter Song

Tell Old Charlie Irons/Why Axe Ye

 

A SELECT FEW

A CD of dance music by Time of Your Life. Tracks are as follows:

 

Bushels of Brussels*/The Felmersham Polka*

The Rogue’s March

Lemmy Brazil’s No.1/Off to California

Against The Grain*/Apasthree*

Waterloo Dance

 

*by Graeme Meek

 

This CD is available from Life & Times and Time of Your Life at bookings for £5 or by

 

mail order

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KEEP DANCING

EFDSS Recordings EDCD07

 

A CD of dance music for use in schools produced by Hertfordshire Folk Association. It includes Time of Your Life and other local bands. £12 (plus £2 postage and packing) from EFDSS, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY

 

Graeme’s tunes included are:

 

Bushels of Brussels/The Felmersham Polka

Against The Grain/Apasthree

 

 

 

 

 

GRANDSON OF

MORRIS ON

 

 

 

 

Barry Appears on this CD by Ashley Hutchings and friends playing his tune, Four Up, which concludes the recording. Find details about it here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAWN CHORUS

Reiver Records RVRCD03

 

Carolyn Robson’s CD includes Graeme’s song The Ghost of Lady de Grey. See www.carolynrobson.com You can hear the song on her website.