Headington Quarry, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1899. Artist: Henry Taunt


Headington Quarry, Headington Quarry, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1899. The dancers at 'sticks down' with the musician William Kimber playing the fiddle with his dog. It was a meeting between this group and Cecil Sharp the folk musicologist at Sandfield Cottage in 1899 that heralded a folk revival in Britain.


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