The English Folkdance and Song Society (EFDSS) has won £154,500 for its new project, called Take 6, from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant will enable EFDSS to collect and archive folk song manuscripts in six national areas.
One of them is Redriff Primary School in Southwark, London, which hosted a Singing Games Festival in the 1960s.
Malcolm Taylor, library director at the EFDSS, said, 'Redriff Primary School also put out a singing games and playground rhymes LP in 1969, and we want to find the children who are on that record. We've found one so far, a teaching assistant at Redriff. We will start a reminiscence project in the New Year, asking them what it was like and what rhymes they can remember.'
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