Shropshire Harmony Quire

The main resources - sound files and scores - are now on the 'For Members' page

The Members page is password protected. You browser will show a pop-up window.

Username is Quire
Password is the same as on the old web site (for the time being *see below)

If you mis-type the Username or Password the box may just come back again without giving an error message.

Visitors will be sent the password by email

* Password change - we will change the password in September 2024 and send the new one via email


The rest of this page is something of a scrap-book


To find the hall for the first time see the map and directions on the Lydbury North village hall web site (scroll down)

(There is a sign on the main road opposite the turn but it often points the wrong way)


Some links to other web sites (all open in a new window)

A great deal of information about the church music of the 18th and early 19th century can be found on the West Gallery Association web site.

The pictures used on our 'Home' and 'Join us' pages are amongst those in their Art Gallery.

They also have the text of Thomas Hardy's oft menioned 'Absent-mindedness in a Parish Choir'.


The pictures on the 'Home' and 'Join us' pages

The Village Philharmonic c.1888. by Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947). Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.

The Halifax Church Choir practising at the Ring o' Bells Inn, dated 1796, by Thomas Farrer (1838-1891). Collection of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.


The title of the 2024 workshop "Sing Lustily and With Good Courage" comes from John Wesley's 'Directions' for singers in Selected Hymns, 1761. Directions IV, V, and VI relate to the style of singing. (sourced from archive.org/details/selecthymnswitht00wesl)

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