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Janet Taylor

from Howay The Lasses by Howay The Lasses

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  • A beautifully packaged and high quality printed album companion booklet presented with carefully curated artwork designed by Annie Ball. Against a backdrop of historical maps that relate to each character, each album companion comes with full information for our Howay The Lasses songs and stories. As you listen to the songs read about the background to each of the women or organisations we've written about, linger over the lyrics and find out more about how we came to collaborate together. The package also includes a A4 poster from our photoshoot for the project taken on location at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland.

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From the Wolsingham sky you learned constellations
Til scholarship moved you away
Then you started in London with inventions and numbers
Knowing the shape of the earth was the key to the change

Then the books that you wrote, and the studies you guided
With confident accuracy
Meant that those on the ocean could know their position
With latitude, longtitude measured like they’d never been

The teacher, the author, the instrument maker
Refining your knowledge, for those on the sea
Alignment of stars, for a sure navigation
Trust and respect, from the Admiralty
Mistress of science and sea

As the nautical world began it’s transition
From ships built of timber to iron,
You were Jane of all trades, mathematical genius
In correcting their compass, made voyages safer for all

The teacher, the author, the instrument maker
Refining your knowledge, for those on the sea
Alignment of stars, for a sure navigation
Trust and respect, from the Admiralty
Mistress of science and sea

When your last breath drew near, you gazed on Polaris
The North Star was guiding you home
Surely more should be made of your life’s work and labour
The great Mrs Taylor, inventor and patron, the guardian angel of many a sailor at sea

The teacher, the author, the instrument maker
Refining your knowledge, for those on the sea
Alignment of stars, for a sure navigation
Trust and respect, from the Admiralty
Mistress of science and sea

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from Howay The Lasses, released October 18, 2022
Words & Music by Gareth Davies-Jones
Copyright © Gareth Davies-Jones / First Music Publishing 2022

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Howay The Lasses Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

The North East of England is rich with the discoveries, achievements and successes of women from all strands of life - from writers, and reformers, to animators and engineers. Some stories are known to a degree - others not at all. Musicians Annie Ball, Katie Tertell, Bronwen Davies-Jones and Gareth Davies-Jones have teamed up on "Howay The Lasses" to tell them out loud through original song. ... more

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