Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 040255 field work British Isles 19501958 correspondence transcripts musical notation Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV contact ALEX ADAM Co Aberdeen PHONE 23928 Jeanie Robertsonphone Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV Contact Jan 12th 1954 Dear Mr Lomax Thank you indeed for acknowledging my letter I have learnt of these six unusual songs sung by the Romany no doubt he has others…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 Roaming all round the country Outside the Grand mansion Can I sleep in your barn We stood at the Cross Roads Dandy Dandy decaki Romanis Inside an old fashioned locker Transcribed and…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV Contact Rectory Cottage Milton Northampton 6th Dec 1953 Dear Alan Lomax First of all may I say how much I enjoy your programmes I have had a TV only 2 months…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 a pleasing singing voice Welsh mother it is said he marched his regiment in Belgium thro many a weary mile singing teaching them to sing with him ditties folk songs with a…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 3 wishor his address John D Hamp Greenridges Church Way Weston Favell Northampton If it is quite impossibleI forgive youcoping with a heavy mail must indeed be most provokingall of whom have…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TVCon 20 Hillhead St Glasgow W2 71053 Dear Alan I want to let you you know how very much Mary I enjoyed your television programme on Tues You Seumas Ewan McColl Your…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 2 under the mike However we thought it would be infra dig at the BBC Club Blessings good fortune to the series Kitty Ann Nicolson Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV 1 Bury Walk SW3 6th March 1954 Dear Mr Lomax I am told that you might be interested in my songs and so am writing in hopes that we may meet…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TVContact The Fire Brigades Union Established 1918 REGISTERED No 1694 T U REGISTERED OFFICE 865 FULHAM ROAD LONDON S W 6 GENERAL SECRETARY JOHN HORNER Phone Renown 215789 Please quote this reference…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TVContact 40 Highfield Drive South Shields 3 December 1953 Dear Mr Lomax When you were in Newcastle seeing Jack Armstrong for the first time you called at my house and left the…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 be singing at the Connaught Rooms and Claridges in the evening If you are at all interested I would be glad to have a chat with you either during the day of…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 AAANDRAC APPOINTED TELEPHONE ROBIN HOODS BAY 5 205 TVContact Victoria Hotel Robin Hoods Bay Yorkshire Jan 2354 Dear Mr Lomax Many thanks for your card quite a lot of our folks who…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 With our kindest regards Yours sincerely Elizabeth L Taylor Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TVCon 7 Kingsfield Rd Walford Dec 3 Dear Mr Lomax Please let me thank you for a great thrill in your last Television Programme The Tambourine Playing I grew up in the…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 2 never thought to hear it again I have a cottage near Glastonbury Somerset where I shall be living after February there is a little Pub down the road where I believe…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 interest to the student of old customs I have a son living in London if you think there might be anything to interest you perhaps you would like to contact him He…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 9 TVCon County Council of the County of Lanark Education Committee St Brides School Bothwell Lanarkshire Thurs 3rd 1953 Dear Mr Lomax Many thanks for your short note which I was delighted…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 the birds in the air but hes too old now He was truly wonderful Are you thinking of coming to our part of Scotland If so I would be just delighted if…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 County Council of the County of Lanark EDUCATION COMMITTEE School 19 3 would help in any way possible Congratulations on your singing programme on 1st Dec Have you recorded all wrapt in…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV Con 9 Romilly Rd Barry Glam 221153 Dear Mr Lomax I should like to take this opportunity of writing to thank you for your very enjoyable programmes Song Hunter I appreciate…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 2 in introducing your quests and I have especially enjoyed your personal items ie your singing accompaniments One thing only has puzzled me Mr Lomax ie your exclusion of Wales You will…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 3 sold in America They were sponsored by the English Folk Song Dance Society at whose festivals I have sung in London the provinces My songs are unaccompanied I wondered if you…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 Talybout Bristol House cousin Williams Evans Gaynors her uncle knows M Swansea Davis 60 Rhyddings Park 12d Swansea Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV Con Whinmoor House Wellington Hill Shadwell Leeds TEL 59861 151253 Dear Mr Lomax I have just finished listening to the last of your Song Hunter programmes and mus say how very…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 heard of which does not belong to any of the places mentioned in tonights programme but nevertheless some associates itself with a white Christmas when I lived in Dronfield in Derbyshire near…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 the Old Horse Two men made the horse which performed the action in the song This of course was known as humming and was actually done outside our front door on the…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV source of material Beech Cottage Sir William Hill Grindleford Sheffield 1354 Tel Grindleford 216 Dear Mr Lomax Although unfortunately I missed your last television broadcast I have seen several of yours…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 No doubt you know the magnificent Down In Yon Forest in the Oxford Carol Book which VW collected there At the end of the war I met an exRAF WOa real flying…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 which appears to be Swedish in origin It appears in the marching song of the CRE under the words Tussue paper tissue paper marmalade and jam Have recently acquired a tape recorder…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 18254 4 Drayton Gardens West Ealing W13 Dear Mr Lomax I had a look through the Raido Times and I was quite pleased to see that you are back at the BBC…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 TV Telephone also in Texas City and other ports of the world and I have never heard it sung the same as my shipmate an I made it up and if you…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 ENQUIRY BUREAU TONER HOUSE NEWNES PEARSON TELEPHONE TEMPLE BAR 4363 TELEGRAMS HUMOURSOME RAND LONDON THE Smallholder AND HOME GARDENING TOWER HOUSE SOUTHAMPTON STREET STRAND LONDON WC2 TV Contact Reference No Enquirerers Name…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BRITISH RAILWAYS EASTERN REGION IR GAMBLE Assistant District Passenger Supt Hamilton House 155 BISHOPGATE EC2 Telephone BIShopsgate 7600 Ext 2352 Telegrams Distpass co Eastlin London Transcribed and reviewed by…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 18 2 Yarmouth Hornpipe Again at the Kings Head at Worstead Norwich you will find a character in the landlord Elijah Flaxman He too is a singer of old songs as are…
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958 Just in case I should be able to help you professionally in your travels Gamble Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, British Isles, 1950-1958
- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1950-01-01