Hi and all

Couple more points which may be of interest. John Peel hunted in the Lake District where the hounds are followed on foot, nothing like the commonly exported pictures of mounted "unspeakables in the pursuit of the uneatable". His coat so grey note not "gay" as is sometimes recorded refers to the Hoddden grey cloth woven from the fleece of the Herdwick sheep grazed in the area.

Ferrera, "Horn of the Hunter" was *not* anything to do wuth John Peel, it is about John Bownam, another far more recent Lake District huntsman. The Lyrics also chronical the flooding of Mardale in the thirties to provide what is now the Haweswater resevoir for Manchester and other Nw industrial towns. The Dun Bull was the local pub, and Haweswater was the original Lake which formed the basis of the resevoir. The last time I was in the Lakes in about 1985 from memory, the water was so low that the remains of the old village could be seen