The Young'uns in Hartlepool

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Young’uns are three award winning troubadours from Teeside. Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes take Matthew Bannister on a walk round the historic headland of Hartlepool where Sean used to live in a shed in his parents’ back garden. Along the way they tell stories and sing songs inspired by the location, visiting the medieval Sandwell Gate, St Hilda’s Church and the Heugh Battery, site of the only First World War battle to take place on British soil. They end up in the Pot House pub, where the Young’uns used to run a folk club, singing Cooney’s original composition “The Hartlepool Pedlar”. There may also be time for a pint.

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0:00.0	I found this great quote from the American writer Mark Twain.
0:11.0	He says the true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking or in the scenery, but in the talking.
0:18.1	It's no matter whether one talks wisdom or nonsense, the case is the same. The bulk of the enjoyment lies in the wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic ear. Isn't that wonderful? The wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic ear. That's what we're going to do on this podcast, on this FoconFort podcast. That's what it's all about. And we're going to add a new
0:38.5	ingredient as well, not just the wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic
0:42.6	ear, but performance from some of the UK's leading folk musicians. Unique performances recorded
0:48.8	on location. It's going to be a magnificent journey and I hope you're going to come on it with us. For today's folk on foot, we're by the sea, but we're in an urban landscape.
1:22.7	It's a typically British scene here, I have to say,
1:24.9	because although it's lowering, grey,
1:30.3	windy, you know, there's a wind blowing in,
1:31.5	the gulls are crying,
1:34.5	there's a little girl in a pink coat with her dad picking up shells, and I think they're going to try and make a
1:37.3	sandcastle here in a very British way,
1:39.8	wrapped up with your coat on, but making a sandcastle.
1:54.3	Like a four way, wrapped up with your coat on but making a soundcastle. Like I've always said, I'm a proud court head.
2:01.6	I was good in fish when I was four. If you look in for me, then look out to sea, just like me died before.
2:20.3	One thing makes me sing, though the sea is cruel.
2:39.0	Jenny waits for me in old Hartlepool.
3:00.6	We're in Hartlepool, which is by the sea, and it's in the northeast of England,
3:10.3	and I should say where Hartlepool got its name,
3:13.3	because according to that wonderful historian, the venerable bead,
3:17.3	it came from the fact that deer, or hearts, as they used to be known, came here to drink.
3:23.3	Well, you might know it for the fact that it elected
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