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Acknowledgements

We would like sincerely to thank the following who have helped with or contributed to this project:

Principally the Heritage Lottery Fund for providing the main funding for the project.  Plus other funders: Happenstance Border Morris, The Gloucestershire Morris Men, The Chipping Campden Morris Men, Styx of Stroud Morris, Endsleigh Insurance, Charles Martell, Saydisc Records.

Topic Records, The English Folk Dance and Song Society, The Vaughan William Memorial Library, Gloucestershire Music Makers, Gloucestershire Archives, The Cambridge Morris Men, the Library of Congress, Washington, Glosfolk.

Transcribers and checkers: Paul Burgess, Chris Carruthers, Gwilym Davies, Jeannie Evans,  Stephen Gale, Rob and Gillian Guest, Lewis Jones, Veronica Lowe, Charles Menteith, Barry Pearce, Paul Peters, Geoff Ramshaw, Richard Sermon, Hugh Tarran, Ben Thakeray, Cathy Umbers, Doug Watt, Liz O’Sullivan and Richard Whittern.

Technical help: Steve Rowley, Robin Burton, Robin Davies, Adam McKenna, Ben Dowty.

Help with song notes: Hugh Tarran, Steve Gardham and Jon Lighter, with also huge help from the following websites:
http://www.vwml.org/
http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Contents.html
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
and to the various contributors to the ‘Mudcat’ on line forum.

Singer and Musician Notes: Carol Davies, Charles Menteith.

Song collectors: Mike Yates, Rod Smith, the late Roy Palmer

Plus of course all the singers and musicians over the years who have allowed their music to be collected. and have helped to preserve it for us all.

Gloucestershire Traditions (Carol Davies, Gwilym Davies, Stephen Gale, Charles Menteith and Veronica Lowe)