Reference
AU10/49/3
Title
Original manuscript poems and short essays by Gregor Harris, some in dialect and including drafts, published as "Acorns from an Ampthill Oak" in 1973 [see AU10/49/4] contents include: The Song of the Nostalgic Lutonian; Cover up Them 'Taters; Canon Ball Stories; After Evensong; a number of limericks; The Village Choir; Reflections on Psalm 37; Clocking Off and Clocking On; On Seeing Skilled Craftsmen Pushing Crude Trucks Through the Workshop Instead of Using Modern Scientific Methods; On Luton Town Winning Promotion to the First Division of the Football League; The Lay of the Low Lay Clerk; An Unpopular Word; How the Tewn Went Dewn Two Local Men Holding an Inquest on a Football Match in Which Luton has Lost Unluckily; Prince of Denmark, A Parody of Shakespear's Famous Play; The Momentous Life of Benjamin Hooley; A Standard for English; The Place Where I Was Born; Advice to me Fellow Craftsmen on retiring at the Age of Sixty Five; To Be Sung in Times of Drought; The Verger's Song; The Pride of Dunstable Street [with music by Alan Rolt]; The Litter Louts; Jesse Pye of Luton Town
Date free text
C20
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1973
Level of description
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