THE MERMAID AND THE SWALLOW
THE MERMAID AND THE SWALLOW
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A song about legendary tattoo artist, Trevor Hodge, whom I got to know a bit when I ran the Port Dover Harbour Museum. This song comes both as a broadside and a chapbook.
FREE MUSIC DOWNLOADS FOR “BROADSIDE BALLADS AND PENNY DREADFULS” - This is a series of broadsides and tiny chapbooks of original song lyrics by Ian Bell inspired by the street literature of the early 19th century. They all include wood engravings and hand-set typography - much of it using 19th century wooden type. The chapbooks are printed on a foot-powered 1906 Golding “Pearl” press, The broadsides are printed on a 1950s showcard press.