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Category: Working life

Song of the Week: Marie Lloyd, My Old Man Said Follow the Van

Posted 28 June 201828 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1910s, Song of the Week, Working life

Here’s a treat: Marie Lloyd’s My Old Man Said Follow the Van, written in 1919 by Fred W. Leigh and Charles Collins, in this utterly wonderful performance by Jessie Wallace. Although humorous, the song (according to its Wikipedia entry): reflects […]

To Build Jerusalem

Browsing “To Build Jerusalem”

Posted 3 July 201724 December 2017 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Books, Working life

The Radio Days popular music and social history project covers the years from around 1870 to around 1939. So I was delighted to find this “photographic remembrance of British working class life 1875-1950”. Just a pure pleasure to thumb through […]

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