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Hanging Johnny

Mill Ford School Fete circa 2001
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 Howard Somerville
Howard Somerville club
If there were anywhere I'd like to have been, it's here and then. What a wonderful backdrop! Real local people! (not the massed hordes of "visitors" I find everywhere I go). If only I could and had, and I could sing, I'd have joined in.
10 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
An over-romantic view. The backdrop is wonderful, as long as you don't mind the litter and graffiti, and the real local yobs shouting abuse and firing air-guns at cats and windows.
10 years ago.
 Howard Somerville
Howard Somerville club
It's (for me, anyway) a photographer's objective to flatter his subject, and in that this video succeeds magnificently, helped no little by the music. It appears to show a slice of Devon rural/maritime community life which to some looks and sounds idyllic. I prefer to believe it rather than the inevitable underlying reality.
10 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
URBAN community life actually. This is a council estate on the edge of a big city. The rural backdrop is on the other side of the creek. The singers here are teachers at a special school for the learning disabled, which holds a fete every summer and Christmas.
10 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
Must I have my illusions shattered? Is it my fete?

But there's something so (authentically) timeless in "Rolling Down the River" rendered in that Devonian cadence.
10 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
Especially when they're rolling down to Tilbury Town (quite a long way from Devon).
10 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
In a container ship, especially.
10 years ago.

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