This is delightful, worth the 3 mins just for his suit alone.
Part of episode 1 of Jonathan Meades BBC series “Abroad in Britain”, which is available on the BBC DVD “The Jonathan Meades Collection”.
Tag Archives: Birmingham
(1778) The Cottager’s Complaint
I’ve still not got around to learning this, which is pretty poor – perhaps you can learn it and send us a recording?! Again taken from Roy Palmer’s excellent Ballad History of England. Tune is know nowadays as the Broom of the Cowdenknowes.
Insight into UK slum building from 1800s
This extract taken from ‘The Making Of The English Landscape’ by W.G. Hoskins is brutal and telling.
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