STAG (4)
The last Stag in our herd was the record division of New Chapter Press,
of Corsham, Wiltshire. It issued at least one single, 'The Ballad Of
Brusher Mills' by Devon singer / guitarist Terry Calm (SR-1;
1978). As the title suggests, the song told the story of one of Harry
'Brusher' Mills, one of the characters of the New Forest in bygone
days. The single was manufactured through custom recording firm SRT (q.v.), as the S/78/CUS-169
and 170 matrix
numbers indicate. Googling hasn't revealed the existence of any other 'SR'
prefixed or SRT-linked Stag records, so it looks as though New Chapter Press
stuck to book publishing afterwards and didn't make any more ventures into the
field of record-releasing.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.