Recorded on a 4 track at Bob Rowsell's Elm Studio which was a shed in a garden in Paulton. Sent to John Peel who liked it and suggested we get a record out
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Raves from the Grave's new premises
The Blue House Frome
Built in 1726 at a cost of £1,401 8s 9d, it replaced a previous almshouse dating from 1461 (and rebuilt in 1621). The Blue House provided accommodation for 20 female widows, and schooling for 20 boys, and the front of the building is adorned by two statues, one of a man, colloquially known as "Billy Ball", and one a woman called "Nancy Guy", indicating the building's dual role. Its role as a school ceased in 1921, and it now provides studio and one bedroom flats for 17 elderly residents.[2]
See a sketch of it in the 18thc .
Wikipedia
Two figures used to flank the front door now at the back
Wikipedia
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Happy St Patrick's Day
This I have been waiting to post since I saw this film about 4 weeks ago. Basically the kids run away from a wicked uncle to Ireland arriving on Patrick's day. Cue cliches
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019
The Mountain by Ralph Mitchard aged 15
Had a request to post the short story I wrote so I scanned it from the school magazine. Pic of me at school at Sexey's
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Continuing about my Grandfather
Following along after the Great War my Grandfather (mines rescue in the tunnels) went back underground but he remained on the reserve and during the 1921 miners strike got called up for the Royal Engineers. I have a pay slip from that time. They were sent to the Kent coalfield. But unrest was in the air and my Grandfather and his colleagues agreed that if they were called to shoot they would refuse the orders and shoot the officers. Of course it didn't come to that. But an interesting footnote to his army career.
https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story/tuc-150/hard-times-and-unrest/somerset-and-bristol-miners
