Note: Peter Kennedy: Miners believed they had the right to eat local birds – fights between miners and landowners gamekeepers took place in the streets of Stanhope and elsewhere in Weardale, County Durham. See following interview.
About the session: Ballads and local songs in dialect sung by Mark Anderson and Thomas Raine; dance tunes played by Anderson (melodeon), Robert Beadle (piano), and Tommy Beadle (fiddle).
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