The following are a few of the notable, and notorious Feathers
we know. I am keen to expand this page to include any other "Famous Feathers" you may know of.
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Other Famous Feathers include;
Daddy
Feather - Had a pot shop on Damside.
Billy
Feather - Used to sing in the pubs
Jack Feather - Was a tripe seller in the Market.
Leonard Feather - An accomplished jazz composer
Lord
Vic Feather - General Secretary of the T.U.C.
Lorraine Feather - Daughter of Leonard and an
accomplished composer in her own right.
Old
Tom "Cobbler" Feather - Had a shop in the Pinfold.
Professor Norman Feather - A
professor of physics at Edinburgh University - He was on the team that smashed
the atom in the 30's.
Professor Norman Feather
Professor of Physics at Edinburgh University. Before that he was
a young research worker with Lord Rutherford at Cambridge, in the team which
smashed the atom in the 1930s.
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Lord Vic Feather
He was General Secretary of the TUC and did much to promote harmony between
the unions and employees in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Daddy Feather
Daddy Feather had a pot shop on Damside. He used to auction
dinner and tea services. He would pile almost a whole service between his
fingertips and chin, and if he couldn't get the price he asked he would smash
them against a brick wall. His wide was called 'Tapioca Semolina' Feather.
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Billy Feather
Used to sing in the pubs, he was 'Daddy' and 'Tapioca Semolina'
Feather's son. He had a good education, going away to college. But for some
reason he was down on his uppers. He was a good singer, although he had a cleft
palate. He would always end up singing 'Maquita'. He lived with 'Malizze' (Mary
Elizabeth) Halligan in Eastwood Square. They would sing together.
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Jack Feather
Was a tripe seller in the Market. He did his boiling off Park
Lane (in Broom Street or Barn Street).
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'Old Tom Cobbler' Feather
Had a shop in the Pinfold. He would repair
all kinds of shoes and boots as well as clogs. He used to keep pigs.
Note:- The Pinfold was the area at the bottom of the modern day
Oakworth Road between the Post Office sorting office and the multi story car
park.
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Leonard Feather
British journalist Leonard Feather was
a jazz enthusiast who turned his love of the music into a lifelong career as a
writer, producer and educator. He was the author of 11 books on jazz. He
produced Dinah Washington, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young, among
others, and wrote the album notes for literally thousands of LPs. Feather was
also a composer and lyricist. His work was recorded by many of the most notable
jazz artists, including Mel Torme and B.B. King. Read more on a web site
dedicated to his life and work. -
http://www.leonardfeather.com/
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Lorraine Feather
Lorraine Feather was born in
Manhattan. Her parents named her Billie Jane Lee Lorraine after godmother Billie
Holiday, her mother Jane (formerly a singer with various bands in New York), her
mother's ex-roommate Peggy Lee, and the song "Sweet Lorraine." She is the
daughter of the late jazz writer Leonard Feather. Read more on her
web site -
http://www.lorrainefeather.com/
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