Music…

The huckleberries busking, I think this was in Winchester. I used to see them in Salisbury and other towns in the area quite often. They always gave a great performance! Sadly there aren't many good quality videos of them. A unique band with banjo, mandolin and electric violin. I think they have a couple of CD's, I remember they used to sell them on the street. This number has a bit more of a modern rock flavour than their usual more traditional stuff. Great musicians.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd4U-m27fmA
 
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Dpo3Iverw

"The ancient prison of Newgate, near the present Old Bailey, was built originally in the 12th century within one of the gates in the city wall."

"Newgate, according to Maitland, was

a dismal place within. The Prisoners are sometimes packed so close together, and the Air so corrupted by their Stench and Nastiness, that it occasions a Disease called the Gaol-Distemper, of which they die by Dozens, and Cart-loads of them are carried out and thrown into a Pit in the Church-yard of Christ-Church, without Ceremony; and so infectious is this Distemper, that several Judges, Jurymen, and Lawyers, &c. have taken it of the Prisoners, when they have been brought to the Old-Baily to be tried, and died soon after; of which we have had an Instance within these seven Years.(William Maitland, History … of London, ii (1756), p.951)."

Ah yes, the "good old days". English blues.



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