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Description: | Song on a local hind's attempts to find work.Hirings were held in many local villages and towns throughout the year. Workers from various occupations gathered hoping to find work for the following year. In this song a hind travels to Morpeth hirings looking for work. Much to his wife's dismay, he is unable to find work at Morpeth and is forced to travel to the hirings at Wooler and Alnwick. A hind was a type of farm worker, usually of higher standing than general farm labourers, whom he often employed in small groups.The hirings would have been great social occasions with much drunken revelry and dancing. Hirings were still taking place in Northumberland during the twentieth century, the last known hirings being at Alnwick in the 1930s.This song is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | Smith Alnwick ; Northumberland | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | agriculture & fairs & hirings & employment country life & festivities & industry and occupation | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0104401 | Go to resource |
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