If you ever get chance to watch Mrs Lowry and Son, DO IT..it's brilliant.. "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"[6] was a tribute to the artist L. S. Lowry, who had died two years previously. For the song, Coleman drew on his own memories of Salford and Ancoats as well as the paintings of Lowry. St Winifred's School Choir appeared on the record, singing the children's song "The Big Ship Sails on the Alley-Alley-O", which was sung by children in the Salford area with reference to the Manchester Ship Canal.