WALLS OF JERICHO

This Song needs a glossary to explain it! See below.
‘Baggin’ - bait, snap, Jock. Packed lunch!
‘Scaplin’ - poor quality eroded and friable surface stone removed (scalped?) from the top of the Quarry. Often crushed into roadstone
.‘Delf’ or ‘Delph’ - a small quarry.‘Judd Walls’ - massive drystone retaining walls usually of rough, poor quality stone, used to support quarry spoil heaps adjacent to roads, houses etc. The Walls of Jericho were the best examples of such walls in the Bradford area. There are still excellent Judd Walls to be found however - particularly interesting examples being still extant in the Upper Shibden Valley near Halifax, where there is Judd walled footpath ‘tunnel’ that must surely be unique!
‘Billy Wobble’ - a type of steam driven quarry crane
'Nell’ - Sharp, semi dressed stone used to make
‘Toppers’ - capstones for drystone walls.
‘Floity’ - useless waste stone, which along with ‘Baring’ stone constitutes the waste, tips of quarries.
‘Banker’ - the mason who shapes and dresses the quarried stone to its purpose.
‘Lumper Up’ The man who judges the grain of the bedded stone and makes the primary cut. (I wonder if they call them that at De Beers?)
‘Lifts’ - slabs of quality stone prised up from the bedrock
‘Plugs’, Feathers, Pitchers and Points - Stone cutting tools

[@strathtales]

Classic JJ. Lovely, evocative song; as always, well performed and recorded; enduring images; pathos and gentle humour. Thanks Jim.

[@bailliekins]

Fantastic song, as usual Jim, love it!

[@davidjennings3947]

Dunt need no explainin to me Jim, Another masterpiece mate.