" Appley Bridge " (a Lancashire Song by John R Finch) Video

Work in progress on this song- I would welcome your feedback. This is my first new song for 2012- a folk song called "Appley Bridge". about our village in the Douglas Valley, Lancashire. It is leaning towards the "traditional" genre. I wrote this song to tell the story of how Appley Bridge got its name. Before a bridge was built across the river Douglas, known to locals as "the Duggie", there were stepping stones-the only way to cross the river. One rainy day, an old man who lived in a cottage by the river, watched an old woman crossing the stepping stones on a rainy day; she slipped on the stepping stones, fell into the river and he watched go, As she was drowning, he called out to the woman: "They'll appley bridge it o'er now!" This means in Appley Bridge/Lancashire dialect- "they will probably/perhaps build a bridge over it now". And they did! The video was recorded at my home in Appley Bridge on the same day I wrote this song (music & lyrics) on 2nd January 2012. Thanks to Terry Harrington for the camera work. Mt thanks to my sister Joanna McNulty for giving me the idea for the song.

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[nathancroucher90]

Good work lad, fantastic songwriter, gotta do a set in The Waters Edge or somewhere local.

[singaporemick]

Very good John you should try to write one about the demolition of the Railway hotel and the real old locals like Phil Forrest, Delphine MaGraph , Hector Holt and Jimmy Justice.

[Halkilad]

Nice one John.