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Description: | This photograph shows a group of Northumberland pipers, Henry Clough, Kennedy North and Tom Clough. The Cloughs are perhaps the oldest piping family in the region, their piping traditions dating back some six generations to Thomas Clough in the late eighteenth century. Not only were the Clough players, they also manufactured and taught the pipes to many local musicians. The photograph was taken some time in the early twentieth century.The picture forms part of a collection held by Beamish Museum. The photographs come from various sources and range in date from 1880 to 1932. Amongst the subjects are famous Northumbrian pipers Tom Green and Thomas Clough, as well as local composer and character Tommy Armstrong. The collection also includes some of the earliest photographs of clog and rapper dance teams and provides a rare visual archive of traditional music at this time. ; A collection of photographs of North-East composers, musicians and performers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Beamish Museum | Subjects: | pipers & piping | Temporal: | start=1901;end=1940; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:B0701101 | Go to resource |
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