He taught 36 pupils, including Joe Hutton, Tommy Breckons and Colin Caisley, and passed on his pipemaking skills to William Cocks.
The museum, founded in 1987, contains a large collection of historic bagpipes, especially, but not exclusively, historic Northumbrian smallpipes and Border pipes, mainly based on the collection of William Alfred Cocks (1892 - 1971).
They also published an important book on pipemaking, by William Alfred Cocks and Jim F. Bryan, 'The Northumbrian Bagpipes', in 1967.
William A. Cocks; F. S. A. Scot, The Galpin Society Journal, Vol.
Its archaeological collection is held at the Great North Museum, its bagpipe collection, based on the collection assembled by William Cocks, in Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, and its collection of manuscripts at the Northumberland Record Office.
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