Cecil Sharp in Kent

Here’s a recording of a presentation I gave recently at the July meeting of the Traditional Song Forum, Cecil Sharp in Kent.

This covers all of the collecting carried out by Cecil Sharp in the county

• July 1908 – children’s singing games, Trosley
• September 1908 – song collecting in Hamstreet, Ruckinge and Warehorne
• October 1911 – Christmas carols, Hamstreet
• September 1914 – sea shanties, Belvedere

but with a particular focus on his collecting in the Hamstreet area.

As a postscript, I look at the version of ‘Polly Vaughan’ (Roud 166) which he didn’t actually collect in Kent, but which had been learned from an old man at Homestall near Doddington.