Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) a railway-man from the
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, plays over 30 tunes he used for local
dances & Morris troupes - his father, a charcoal burner at Newent,
was fiddler at Clifford Mesne and from him Cecil Sharp noted both Morris
& Country dances - Emily Bishop at Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordshire,
talks about the Morris & her sister, Beatrice Hills, plays the tunes
on melodeon - recorded by Peter Kennedy in 1952 and Russell Wortley in
1954.
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