In the early days, choir members bought and retained their own copies of the music being sung. Mary had kept some copies from the early days and showed them to a fascinated Musical Director.
These items give an intriguing idea of the music sung by the choir in the 1940s:
E C Bairstow: The Blessed Virgin's Cradle Song for Treble solo + chorus (1900)
G Bantock: O can ye sew cushions - SMC (1924)
J Brahms: The Gardener - SSA (undated)
J Brahms: Now all the roses are blooming - SSAA (undated)
B Britten: Old Abram Brown 4 equal voices (1936)
J Brydson: My soul, there is a country - unison (1939)
S Coleridge-Taylor: What can lambkins do - SSA (1908)
H Walford Davies: The Pedlar's Song - SSA (1932)
E Elgar: The Banner of St George - SSAA arrangement by H A Chambers (1934)
P E Fletcher: Follow me down to Carlow - SMC (1915)
J L Hatton: He that hath a pleasant face - SSA (undated)
C H Kitson: Whence is that goodly fragrance? - SATB (1930)
J Lyon: Lullaby of the moon-mist - SSC (1938)
W Shield: O happy fair; or The Loadstars - SSA (undated)
A Somervell: Pack clouds away - SSC (1914)
E Thiman: To Daffodils - SS (1928)
E MacDowell: Dance of the Gnomes - SSCC arr. P Ambrose (1919)
W McNaught: In Derry Vale - an arrangement of Londonderry Air for SMC (1928)
And from a later date:
T F Dunhill: How soft upon the ev'ning air SS arr. M Jacobson (1961)
E Thiman: Summer has come 2-part (1959)