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Orange songs
by Valerie Pawar
My grandparents were staunch Orange Lodge members.
I can remember by grandmother teaching me all their songs....and to this day I still remember the words!!..Hey there Billy don't catch me..catch that man behind the tree - he belongs to popery and I belong to King Billy!!!! There were many more too.
My ... more

Never Heard of Terence Davies until.....................
by John Irving

It must be possibly 4 or 5 years ago I switched on Radio 4 and came in part way through the "book of the week". I instantly was hooked and continued until the last installment. This was "Travels in Celluloid" by Terence Davies. Over the next days, months, I attempted ... more


Pride in my adopted City
by Roger Brooks

I started working in Liverpool in 1974 having moved up from London a couple of years earlier - ironically to find work after graduating as a Chemist. I knew little about Liverpool then apart from the "Merseybeat" of my teens - with the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers at ... more


Music with The Spinners
by Dorothy McDowell

My friend and I went to the folk club that the Spinners held every week above a pub in Paradise Street.

The spinners would sing, and then they would invite people on stage to sing.

I was rubbish playing a guitar but I got up and my friend sang "The leaving of Liverpool"

we ... more


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