Lancashire – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions.

“Virginity is an overrated virtue”

Granddad’s Armistice in letters and recollections. Glimpses ante hoc of Cameronians & Royal Scots (52nd Division) in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the Somme; of ambulance trains in Northern France; of 6th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment (11th Division) during the terminal Hundred Days Offensive to Mons, Belgium; and post hoc of base hospitals, influenza, and an exchange with one Wolfram Sterry regarding his brother Karl. Introducing Kandy the Maltese terrier.

No early photos so far from the steel boxes, so here's grandpa with grandma at Winchester Cathedral in 1972.

Etymology of Trippier

Does Kieran have a goatherd or a tripe merchant in his paternal line?

Will Kemp Morris-danced from London to Norwich

But unfortunately he probably won’t figure in the results of the Singing Organ-Grinder’s historical explorations into English popular song.

Will Kemp underway from London to Norwich in 1600, with Thomas Slye on pipe and tabor, but without an organ grinder, because the technology wasn't there.

Protected: Seniorita’s sauna and massage parlour, Chatsworth Road, Clapton, London (This post started elsewhere as a bit of linguistic jokery about George Formby, Al Jolson and Balkan turbo-folk, but unhappily became a focus for daft, drunk men looking for prostitutes. To read it please enter the German version of the first name of the translator of the Bible into Middle English)

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