On the High Street project we have featured a heavily-edited version of the story of Tom Austin, a local highwayman, and Kev has been absolutely desperate to tell the whole tale in a less sanitised format. Here it is. It’s pretty gruesome.
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National Poetry Day: Inchcape Bell
To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we have a poem of wrongs and retribution, read by our very own storyteller and balladeer, Kev Johns. The poem is ‘Inchcape Rock’; a ballad originally written by Robert Southey in 1802.
Continue ReadingThe Ballad of the Thirsty White Dragon Inn
Long, long ago, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I was walking home from school with my mother. As we trotted past the imposing Edwardian terraced houses of Wellswood Park we noticed that
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