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Nell Hannah - Aye Singin an Spinnin Yarns (Paperback)
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Nell Hannah - Aye Singin an Spinnin Yarns (Paperback)
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Loot Price R286
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Nell Hannah was born in rural Aberdeenshire in 1920 and grew in
Turriff, where her family scraped a meagre living as domestic and
farm servants. After the outbreak of World War Two, Nell and her
sister Margaret moved with their mother to Perthshire, where all
three got jobs at the Stanley Mill. At the time, it was running
full tilt to produce webbing for military requirements and despite
long hours and austere conditions; Nell recalls her years as a mill
lassie as being memorably happy. In conversation with folklorist
Margaret Bennett and long-time friend and fellow-singer, Doris
Rougvie, Nell shares a life-time of reminiscences and songs. In
recalling the hey-day of an industry that shut down in the 1980s,
she constructs an oral history of life in war-time Perthshire.
Then, following life's paths with its twists and turns, Nell tells
how, at the age of sixty-nine, she discovered her gift of singing
and entertaining. Having made her first recording, a cassette, at
the age of seventy, and her fifth, a CD, at the age of 90, Nell can
hold an audience in the palm of her hand.
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