Author: Marriott Edgar

I’ll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons’ command On Runningmead Island in t’ middle of […]

On the banks of the Mersey, o’er on Cheshire side, Lies Runcorn that’s best known to fame By Transporter Bridge […]

Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington’s time, So when present unpleasantness started, He […]

Henry the Seventh of England Wasn’t out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, […]

I’ll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And […]

It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A […]

Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in […]

I’ll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; ‘Is name, it […]

The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what’s called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in […]

I’ll tell you the story of Balbus, You know, him as builded a wall; I’ll tell you the reason he […]