Graeme Miles was a songwriter from Teesside in North East England. He is said to have written hundreds of songs between 1950 and 1972 celebrating the area including industry and surrounding countryside. Many of these were based on personal experience working at different locations and trades including the ironstone industry. Quite a few deal with life as a National Serviceman in Germany
He was well known performing at folk clubs around Teesside and Tyneside and has been recorded by notables such Martyn Wyndham-Read, Vin Garbutt and Wilson Family. A great favourite with Tyneside Maritime Chorus who have Railwayman's Farewell to Darlington, The Salt Peolple and The Shores of Old Blighty in their repertoire.
Personal remarks:
I have come across Graeme Miles as part of a research project in 2013 and have become really intrigued by the fact that although generally acknowledged as a key folk song writer and singer, he never recorded and his only published songbook given below contains only some 50 of his works.
To get a handle on the extent of his works, I have compiled the song list given below gleaned from various Internet sources. In no way does it claim to be complete and represents only those song located as of 26.04.24. Contributions and corrections to the list from surfers are welcomed!

1. Across the Hills of Yatton
2. At Yarm Fair
3. Banks of the Leven
4. Dark December
5. The Drift From the Land
6. The Duchess of Kent
7. The Eagle and the Dove
8. Eskwaterside
9. An Evening in Summer
10. Exercise No. 77
11. Fair the Heather Grows
12. Farndale Daffodils
13. The Green Banks of Grain
14. Green Coats and Beagles
15. The Green Howard Soldier
16. The Heath of Luneburg
17. Horumarye
18. The Lairdsfield Disaster
19. Lapwing's Feather
20. Merry Little Hop
21. My Eldorado
22. Otago
23. Over Yonder Banks
24. The Railwayman's Farewell to Darlington
25. Redcar Lads
26. Ring of Iron
27. Romney Way
28. The Roving Minstrels
29. Running Fox
30. Sad February
31. The Salt People (1959)
32. Sea Coal
33. She Walks Alone
34. The Shores of Old Blighty
35. Smoke Over Belfast
36. Songs Of Ironopolis
37. The Squaddie's Lullaby
38. Waiting For the Ferry
39. We Are the Roving Minstrels
40. The Wealden Men
41. When the Green Man Walks the Forest
42. When the Snows of Winter Fall
43. When the Tees Ran Warm
44. Where Ravens Feed
45. The Woeful Scarecrow