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Folk Music Journal: Volume 9 Number 1
Keith Chandler, Popular Culture in Microcosm: The Manuscript Diaries of Richard Heritage of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire.
Supplementary Material
Photographs of locations in Marsh Gibbon and Wotton Underwood were taken by the author on 11 August 2005.
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The Greyhound. |
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The White Hart. Now a private dwelling. |
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The Plough, with The Red Lion in the background. This latter is also currently a private dwelling. |
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A reverse view of 03, with The Red Lion foreground, and The Plough at rear. |
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The house in which Richard Heritage died, at left. |
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The farmhouse at Scott's Farm, diagonally opposite The Greyhound. Heritage's first wife owned this farm jointly with her brother. |
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The author standing in the aisle of Marsh Gibbon Church, holding the pair of manuscript psalm books owned by Richard Herring. In the absence of a west gallery, the choir and band are likely to have been positioned along the rear wall. The door leading up to the bell tower, in which Heritage rang on numerous occasions, is visible at the rear.
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The church, with the headstone of Richard Heritage at right foreground. |
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A close-up of Heritage's headstone. The grave also holds the remains of his wife Elizabeth. |
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The headstone of Thomas Tompkins, who was in both the band and morris dance set with Heritage. |
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The headstone of Richard Herring, owner of the manuscript psalm books. At the date the photograph was taken this was separated from the grave, and leaning against one of the churchyard walls.
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An original page from the Minute Book of The Greyhound Friendly Society, showing payment of five shillings for music at the club feast day in 1815. Courtesy of the current management of The Greyhound.
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Poster announcing the sale of The Greyhound in 1863, at which date Heritage purchased the property. Courtesy of the current management of The Greyhound. |
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Poster announcing the sale of the row of houses shown in 05, two years after Heritage's death in 1865. Courtesy of the current management of The Greyhound. |
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The Manor House at Wotton Underwood, where Heritage both performed with the Marsh Gibbon Morris Dancers, in 1828, and played as a member of the Quainton Band, in 1831. |
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Sample pages from the second Herring manuscript. Each tune straddles two facing pages. |
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Numerous vintage photographs of Marsh Gibbon can be accessed at :
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