Down by the Nine Locks’ was written in 1979 and was featured on the Giggetty Album “The Collection” released on cassette in 1987.
This rerecording will be included on the forthcoming album “The Song of the Mines” by Brian Langtry and ‘The Zouch Boys’ which will be available via www.bandedtogether.co.uk from March 2011.
The title of the song is taken from the series of 9 locks in Brierley Hill West Midlands. This Black Country canal way was used principally for the transportation of coal, iron and steel from the smoke billowing chimneys of the industrialised Black Country. The view from the top lock is stunning to this day but one can only dream of the long gone sight of night time furnaces and skies ‘all a blether’ (courtesy of Black Country poet Jim Wm. Jones) with gaseous colours.
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