Bob Hart singing The Miner's Dream of Home

Bob Hart (1892-1978) from Suffolk, singing "The Miner's Dream Of Home". Bob Hart worked as a fisherman (trawlers and drifters) for 5 years until pneumonia forced him to quit. He then joined the army and was wounded in the Somme in 1916, after which he worked at The Maltings in Snape for nearly 40 years.

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• suffolk
• traditional
• english
• folk
• maltings
• snape
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[rjon9991]

Great! my grandad used to sing this at the door as the 'first foot'

[oldfolkathome]

@rjon9991 just before midnight on New Year's Eve the streets would be full of men - each holding a piece of coal, waiting for the New Year, so they could "first foot" !

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for this, Alan. I haven't heard this since I was a child, listening to my parents collection of 78s. I have no idea who the singer was.

[oldfolkathome]

I wouldn't mind betting that that 78 record was by Peter Dawson "Austrailia's Ambassador of Song" - I've got that record too! Along with him singing "On The Road to Mandalay" All the best :o) Alan

[BJOHN930]

Thanks for the memories

[custygypsysingers]

real good alan cushty xx

[OldTimeVoice]

How wierd i use to live by a man who sang this every new year without fail when i was a boy up untill my teens. He sounded like him too but his name was Tudor....But it was nice to hear it again Thank you Alan for the memory.....Colin.

[gerdenshed]

An excellent video my friend, I like your bottle collection lol... 5*s

Mark...

[garibelon]

Thank you very much, Alan, to bring us those great songs and recordings.

All the best

gari

[raymondcrooke]

I think you may be right. I seem to remember hearing "Road to Mandalay" around the same time.