In a message dated 05/11/2007 11:55:03 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Sam & Geoff Thank you very much for your most interesting replies on Keelmen. Finding it very interesting so I shall have to do more research. Judy Judy: If you are a member of the NDFHS (which I always recommend), then you will know of their lending library of tape-recordings of talks given at certain meetings. One of those, several years old now but still in the library, is of myself talking about keelmen. However, it was almost entirely based on the Tyne. See _www.ndfhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ndfhs.org.uk) for details of what is in the library and membership etc. Geoff Nicholson