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- ↑ "The Holmfirth Anthem or Pratty Flowers", Journal of the Folk Song Society, VI (1922), 9
- ↑ English Dance and Song (Journal of the Folk Dance and Song society), v.47-48 (1985), 16
- ↑ An advertisement for the sheet music appeared in the Huddersfield Chronicle, 2 January 1858, which described it as being "sung with great applause at the last Concert in Holmfirth by Miss Hirst, Miss Crosland, Mr. Wood, Mr. Garner, and several well known Huddersfield Amateurs".
- ↑ Pickles, W. and Kerrod N. "Pratty flowers: A Yorkshire Mystery", Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin, 11(2), 1981, 37–38
- ↑ Bland, D. "Notes": A Fine Hunting Day, Songs of the Holme Valley Beagles, LP LEE 4056
- 1 2 Palmer, R. Bushes and Briars: Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Llanerch, 1999, p.178
- ↑ "The Sing and Whit walks in Holmfirth", Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 19 May 2007
- ↑ "View the lambs" is closer to the original slip-ballad, which runs "On these banks no more you’ll rest you / Whilst with pleasure you see your lambs / With looks so innocent and gentle / Sport beside their fleecy dams". See Madden Collection, Cambridge University Library, Slip songs H-N, VWML microfilm 72, item 1059