The Penny Bab/Dick Gaughan/Newhaven fishwife

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Item no

38339

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume XIII

Artist / maker

Unknown

Type

Postcard; Press cutting

Forgotten folk-lore in Edinburgh includes a tale of the elusive shell-clad Shellycoay believed to haunt Edinburgh's Docklands. According to local legend the Saefield Shellycoat made its home inside a barnacle encrusted boulder (The Penny Bap) that got moved when Leith docks expanded. Local children dared each other to run round the boulder 3 times chanting Shelly-coat, Shelly-coat gang awa hame, I cry nar yer mercy, i fear na yer name. the spirit was said to appear.

A photograph of Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan, who was born in Glasgow on 17/05/1948 and moved to Graham Street in Leith, Edinburgh one and a half years later.
Mr Gaughan is regarded as one of Scotland's finest folk singers and guitarists, and song writer of folk and social protest songs. His first album No More Forever, was recorded in 1971. The fiddler Aly Bain joined him on some of the tracks.
During the 80s he collaborated with several performers on the album Folk Friends 2 and with Andy Irvine on Parallel Lines (1982).

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