Tony Singleton's Home Page


Here you will find links to websites and pages which reflect my twin interests in Music and History.

West Gallery Music

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The West Gallery Music Association

The WGMA is the national organisation which promotes the research and performance of West Gallery Music, the music performed in churches and chapels from about 1720 to 1850, in the later period with a small orchestra of wind and stringed instruments.
Three Quires' Day is a day workshop held twice each year around early April and late October in Lewes, Sussex, for singers and instrumentalists to perform West Gallery music.

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Three Quires' Day

Two West Gallery Quires I sing with

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Marsh Warblers

The Marsh Warblers is based in Tenterden, Kent and performs both West Gallery music and secular songs from the Georgian era.
The London Gallery Quire meets in the City of London and performs West Gallery music, mostly for church services, but also for concerts and lecture recitals, within the M25 ring.

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London Gallery Quire

History

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Cranbrook Union Windmill

The Union Mill, the tallest smock mill in the UK, is owned by the Kent County Council and opened to the public in the summer months (or by arrangement for parties) by volunteers, members of the Cranbrook Windmill Association.
The Wealden Iron Research Group promotes interest and research into the (now defunct) iron industry of the Weald of Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It publishes its findings in a regular Newsletter and in its annual Bulletin.

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Wealden Iron Research Group