COCKNEYS MAKE BAGPIPES
The bagpipes, pride of bonnie Scotland, are made in a workshop in that most Cockney of neighbourhoods— Kentish Town, states a correspondent of a London paper. Bagpipes of every size anti in every stage of development
confronted me as I entered the workshop in King's Yard, Bayham Place. “We send pipes all over the world front here,” Mr. Miller, head of the workshop, told me. "Regiments at home ami abroad, Caledonian societies, and private individuals—they all give us orders. The joke about the bagpipes is that, except for the tartan plaid which decorates the windbag, all other materials come from abroad.” The workmen are accomplished pipers, and they test the pipes as they make them. But most of them have Cockney voices!
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 3
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125COCKNEYS MAKE BAGPIPES Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 3
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