Dora Hannan in Portsmouth - the 1910's, at night
from Those Happy Highways: an autobiography, page 8:
Once up the “wooden hill”, we knelt down by the side of our beds to say our prayers, beginning with “Our Father” followed by “Gentle Jesus” and finishing with “God bless Mummy and Daddy and keep me a good little girl (boy)”. On one occasion when one of my numerous cousins was staying with us, I was quite startled, when after the usual prayers, Peggy burst into loud song, or rather, hymn, and I have never forgotten it,
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Dora Hannan, Those Happy Highways: an autobiography. In Brunel University, The Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:357, p. 8. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1527942206276 accessed: 25 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| child's hymn singing | performed by A female child |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1910's, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Sat, 02 Jun 2018 13:23:27 +0100
Approved on Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:18:07 +0100