ABSTRACT
Emily Baker was born in the Poole district of Dorset in 1894. ‘I’m a proper Romani born and bred, been a-travelling all my days … different towns–Ramsgate, Margate, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Sandwich, Deal, Folkestone, Canterbury, Chatham, right down to Devonshire, Cornwall, Plymouth, Bristol. All parts I’ve a-been, in a horse-drawn caravan.’ She learned her songs from her mother and has contributed ‘The Little Beggar Boy’ (No. 122) to this collection. (Collected 1962)
