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Transcribed into ABC Music Notation for The Village Music Project
by Chris Partington, in 2003
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Walthwaite, Cumbria. 58 tunes
One or two tunes were composed by his teacher, William Irwin,
which puts it later in the 19th century, but the repertoire has an
old-fashioned feel to it apart from one polka and a schottische.
According to my informant Hugh Taylor, Henry Stables was
(briefly) :-
“A pupil of W.Irwin. He died in1906.
Mannex Directory 1849 – shoemaker, in Great and Little Langdale.
Mannex & Co Directory 1851 – Ditto.
Post Office Directory for Durham plus N’umberland, Cumberland,
Westmoreland 1873 – Farmer, Low Hacket, Little Langdale
Westmoreland Gazette Directory 1930 – Elizabeth Stables, Chapel
Stile – only reference in the area to a Stables.”
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