For those who can access Facebook here is Malcolm heading us off for A Drop of Nelson’s Blood:
and Sheila leading Shallow Brown a song about human trafficking and slavery which links well to the Quaker Meeting we were singing in as Quakers campaigned for 80 years against the slave trade. Elizabeth Heyrick was a local Quaker who campaigned forcefully for the abolition of slavery, at a time when people didn’t want to give up the slaves they had in their ‘possession’. She married John Heyrick who wrote the poem ‘On a Cave called Black Annis’s Bower‘ about our legendary Black Annis … but back to the song:
These were recorded by Amy Mosley-Law
The Unruly Crew can be found swabbing the decks at the Leicester Quaker Meeting House,