The Four Loom Weaver | Songs of England #5 | Iron Bridge, Shropshire
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In this new series in collaboration with The Nest Collective, we explore the stories behind traditional English folk songs that have connections to historic places.
In Episode 5, join Matt Thompson and Sam Lee to look at the iconic Iron Bridge in Shropshire. This impressive construction was erected in the late 18th century, crossing the gorge of the same name which is often credited as the 'cradle of the industrial revolution.' Here, in the 1700s, iron foundries produced the metal that powered decades of dramatic transformation in transport and industry in Britain and around the world. The Four Loom Weaver is a traditional song that reflects this age of labour through the struggles of the people who worked in hard and unforgiving jobs.
Visit the Iron Bridge: www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
Presented by Sam Lee and Matt Thompson.
Written and Directed by Max O'Brien.
The Four Loom Weaver Performed by Abel Selaocoe.
Original Music Composed by Christopher Schlechte-Bond.
Music Direction by Thom Ashworth.
Produced by Nathalie Blue and Jamie Bellinger.
Title Lettering by Alan Kitching.
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Yes, I agree, this series is amazing! I too would love to hear more about other folk music around England that might have ties to English Heritage's properties. And I'd love to be able to buy the albums!
Good news, Robin... the full collection will be available to stream soon on Spotify! In the meantime, you can enjoy it on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/the_nest_collective/sets/songs-of-england
I've just encountered this deep song while reading 'Mary Barton' (titled as 'The Oldham Weaver). Thanks a lot for giving perfect visuals and voice to this. And, for the wonderful commentary of history and heritage.
This series is amazing! I cannot wait for the day we can go and visit these place again :)
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I really enjoyed this performance!
Sounds a familiar story to today. We still have rampant inequality, despair, hunger, unhealthy citizens, etc.
Not quite the same though, Is it?
I live only a couple of miles from Ironbridge and I'm proud to be from a place renown for Science, Technology and History.....The Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the home of Charles Darwin.
Shropshire, the biggest inland County in England boasts the Worlds first Iron structure (Ironbridge), the World's first Iron building and predecessor to all sky scrapers (Ditherington Flax Mill) and the World's first Inclined Plane (Ketley), all within a 10 mile radius.
It also has one of the most diverse Geological histories for any area of comparable size in the World with almost every period being found in the Shropshire Hills AONB where Darwin wondered as a boy and gained his love of the natural World. At the Ercall near the Wrekin hill you can see the change from the lifeless Pre-Cambrian to the Cambrian explosion.....and nearly every hill of which there are dozens, have a different history and character from the large array of different rock forms available.
Shropshire is also the best place in the UK for collecting Silurian and Ordovician fossils. The fossils that are most commonly found are brachiopods, corals and graptolites. There are also some Carboniferous limestone locations within the County.
In the North there are glacial meres, as this was the Southern-most edge of the Ice age glaciers and the melt water remained as the ice retreated.
Evidence of extinct megafauna like Wooly Mammoth have been found and Prehistoric man going right through to the Neolithic, with stone circles, barrows and hillforts that strewn the County on almost every hill and at every ancient settlement.
The Romans had an extensive history here too. Viroconium Cornovii situated between Telford and Shrewsbury in a village now called Wroxeter, was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. Caer Caradoc hill is supposedly where Caractacus fought his last battle against them before being taken to Rome. The legendary Anglo-Saxon King, Offa of Mercia ruled here once the Romans had left and he built the famous Offa's Dyke to keep out the marauding Welsh in battles along the border.
After the Norman conquest the Welsh Marches (English side of the Welsh border) were given to some of Williams most trusted and most powerful nobles and they built many Castles in the area, with the Western-mosr changing hands multiple times between the Welsh and Norman Barons for the next few hundred years. Giving fame to Welsh rebels like Owain Glyndwr.
In the high middle ages Prince Henry (later Henry V) fought in one of England's bloodiest Battles (first battle where longbow faced longbow) against Harry Hotspur in the Battle of Shrewsbury, where the young Prince got shot in the face with an arrow.
In the Late Middle Ages the Princes of the Tower were stationed at Ludlow prior to their uncle Richard III disposing of them.
During the Civil War the County saw lots of action as this was a Royalist stronghold. Battles at Hopton and High Ercall have some notoriety and many Castles were besieged or slighted in this period including Clun, Ludlow. Bridgnorth, Dawley, Moreton Corbett, Whittington and Acton Burnell.
Salop (Shropshire) on the Staffordshire border is also where Charles II escaped to and hid up an Oak tree in the grounds of Boscobel House after his defeat at Worcester.
Great Waterways in the longest river in the UK, the River Severn and the Shropshire Union Canal andTectonic fault lines cross the land.......
What else?.....The first man to swim the Channel Captain Webb from Dawley. Sir Gordon Richards 26 times Champion and possibly the greatest ever Jockey was from Donnington. Settings of Poems by A.E Housman. Edward Jenner the founder of Vaccinology (for which we're evermore greatful)...... You name it, this County has it all!
oh my, im melting, the singer sang this song beautifully!!!
I'm a four loom weaver, as many a man knows,
I've nowt to eat an' I, ve worn out mi clothes
Mi clogs are both brocken, an' stockings I've none.
Thee'd hardly gi' us tuppence for all I've getten on.
Owd Billy o' Bent, he's bin tellin' us long
We mayn't had better times if I'd nobbut held mi tongue.
Well I've held mi tongue till I near lost mi breath,
An' I feel in mi heart that I'll soon clem to death.
I'm a four loom weaver, as many a man knows.
I've nowt t'eat an' I've worn out mi clothes.
Owd Billy were right, but he ne'er were clemmed,
An' he ne'er picked o'er in his life.
We held on for six weeks, thought each day were the last.
We tarried an' shifted till we were quite fast.
We lived upon nettles while nettles were good.
An' Waterloo porrage were best o' us food.
Our Margaret declares, if hoo'd clothes to put on,
Hoo'd go up t' London for t'see the great man.
An' if things didn'y alter when there hoo'd been,
Hoo' swears hoo'd fight wi' bood up to th'een.
I'm a four loom weaver as many a man knows.
I've nowt t'eat an' I've worn out mi clothes,
Stockin's I've none, nor no looms to weave on,
An' I've woven mi'sen to far end.
Ewan McColl songs a good version of a four loom weaver