| Description | Tracks 1: Tape testing, 0.20 mins
Track 2: BBC opening credits for Cry from the Cut, 0.19 mins
Cry from the Cut - part 1:
Track 3: A man sings 'The Greasy Wheel'; a band plays the tune, 0.44 mins
Track 4: Brian Vaughton talks about the vanishing way of life on the canals, the boat people's love of beauty and sense of tradition, 0.50 mins
Track 5: A woman talks about ghosts on the canal; another verse of 'The Greasy Wheel', 0.23 mins
Track 6: Sam Lomas of Authorley Junction describes his first day working on the canal when he was 14, 0.39 mins
Track 7: Sister Mary Ward, a nurse, talks about looking after the boat people, 0.34 mins
Track 8: Ernie Thomas talks about his father working on the canal, who was the best boatman he ever worked with, 0.39 mins
Track 9: A man talks about the history of the canals, beginning with Francis, Duke of Bridgewater, the neglect of the canals has preserved the heritage; another man talks about loss of pride in work
Track 10: A man talks about the Duke of Bridgewater laying out the canals in England; another man talks about Thomas Telford, the good design on the canals, locks, 1.39 mins
Track 11: A man talks about lock gate making, working with the tools, blacksmiths making hammers and other tools, traditional names for hammers and other tools, taking a pride in making a lock gate – it’s a landmark, 2.29 mins
Track 12: A man talks about the origins of the word ‘navvy’; digging the canals, talks about an eighteenth-century description of navvies working on a canal, 1.04 mins
Track 13: A song about navvies, 1.27 mins
Track 14: Song - ‘O once I was a ploughman’, a man talks about starting work on the Shropshire Union Canal, 0.57 mins
Track 15: A man talks about the boatbuilding yard, different shapes of the boats, building boats, 1.57 mins
Track 16: Sounds of hammering, men talk about looking after boats and mending leaking boats, 1.06 mins
Track 17: A man talks about the roses and castles decorations on canal boats, men talk about painting boats, 1.15 mins
Track 18: Song ‘As I walked out one Midsummer’s morning’, 1.40 mins
Track 19: A man talks about the old tradition of painting boats, which is dying out, now people use transfers instead, 1.28 mins
Track 20: A man talks about the disappearance of the old traditions, loss of interest in the traditions, 1.09 mins
Track 21: Brian Vaughton talks about decorating horses and boats, talks about the lines marking the inside of the bridges, in the old days, boatmen needed to love horses, 1.46 mins
Track 22: A woman talks about stabling horses at her pub; a man talks about horses liking canal water instead of tap water; a woman talks about a mule she got from the army that used to stand to attention, 1.14 mins
Track 23: Song that begins ‘Come all you dry land sailors and listen to my song’, 1.48 mins
Track 24: A man says that he believes the boat people are descended from gypsies; another man says they aren’t gypsies; a man says that boat people are a class of their own; a man says that women are the best boatmen; a man talks about the hard work, 18 hour days, 1.22 mins
Track 25: Recording setup, 0.28 mins
Track 26: Song beginning ‘Come all of you good people’, 1.27 mins
Track 27: Silence, 0.25 mins
Track 28: Children performing in a play about the King of England and St George, 1.56 mins
Track 29: A woman talks about girls working loading granite and coal onto boats, 0.31 mins
Track 30: A woman sings a song beginning ‘It’s a hard life for a girl on the cut’; a woman says that boatwomen work harder than the men, and talks the traditional division of work between men and women, 1.32 mins
Track 31: A woman sings ‘It’s a hard life for a wife on the cut’; Sister Mary Ward talks about giving birth on boats – many newborn babies dying in their first year, the tradition of men not talking about childbirth, 2.29 mins
Track 32: A man talks about boatwomen not going out until they’ve been churched, 1.00 mins
Track 33: Brian Vaughton talks about large families on boats, a man talks about being a child on a boat, another man talks about not going to go to school, 1.37 mins
Track 34: A woman and and a man talks about having no education, he can’t read, 1.26 mins
Tracks 35-36: Brian Vaughton and others talk about dress on the canals, 1.02 mins
Track 37: A woman sings ‘The Water is Wide’; a man and a woman talk about courting on the canal, 1.39 mins
Track 38: A woman talks about the tradition of a woman throwing a man’s hat into the canal to show that they are lovers, 1.46 mins
Track 39: A man talks about boat people ‘keeping to their own class of people’and describes a wedding reception on a boat, sings music hall songs, 1.37 mins
Track 40: A man talks about forgetting the old canal songs, another man talks about music on the canal, 1.37 mins
Track 41: A man talks about the ‘greasy wheelers’ who worked the steamers; song - part of 'The Greasy Wheel'; a man and woman talk about clothes worn by the steamboat men and the cleanness of the boat, 2.20 mins
Track 42: The boat people talk about working in the winter, the ice on the canal and on the gates, 1.36 mins
Track 43: Song 'I am a navigator' about Irish navvies on the canals, 1.45 mins
Track 44: A man talks about the traditions associated with death, dying people were never taken off the boat, 1.15 mins
Track 45: A man talks about the boatmen dying out, a man talks about the beauty of tradition, 1.35 mins
Track 46: A woman talks about the ugliness of the new boats, a man talks about the decorated boats dying out, 1.14 mins
Track 47: A verse of 'The Greasy Wheel'; men talk about their love of life on the canal and of nature, 0.58 mins
Track 48: 'As I walked out on a Midsummer's morning',a man talks about flowers, a man talks about loving life on the canal, 1.20 mins
Track 49: A man sings 'I must go down to some lonely valley'; noise of an engine, 1.04 mins
Track 50: Closing credits, 1.27 mins
Total: 1.04.33 mins
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