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A Beuk O’ Newcassell Sangs Collected By Joseph Crawhall 1888
'' A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs'' is a pictorial book giving details of local songs, including the lyrics and in many cases, the music, and all beautifully illustrated with the author's own woodcuts. It was published in 1888. It was reprinted in 1965 by Harold Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne. Details '' A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs ''– (full title – ''A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs Collected by Joseph Crawhall'' , Mawson, Swan & Morgan, M.D. CCC.LXXXVIII) is a book containing approximately 35 songs complete with their lyrics, and in some cases, the music. The Geordie folk songs all relate in some way or other to North East England, and many are in Geordie dialect. It was edited by Joseph Crawhall II. The publication It is, as the title suggests, a collection of sangs (or in English "songs") from the Newcassel (or "Newcastle") area. Contents Are as below: Notes A-N1 – according to George Allan's Tyneside Songs and Readings of 1891, the writer is Robert Nunn S-C1 – ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Crawhall II
Joseph Crawhall II (1821–1896) was born at West House, Newcastle. He was a ropemaker, author, and watercolour painter. Life Crawhall, like his father (also Joseph), a Newcastle ropemaker, was interested in writing and watercolour painting. He went on to produce many books, illustrated by himself. His first (printed by himself in 1859) was entitled ''The Compleatest Angling Booke That Ever was Writ''. The second edition (printed in 1881) contained illustrations from his son, Joseph Crawhall and James Guthrie (1859–1930). Crawhall was a friend of Charles Keene (1823–1891), illustrator of ''Punch'', and they worked together for over 200 drawings for the journal. There are 21 albums of these drawings in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. Joseph Crawhall II was a man of many talents. As well as a wood engraver and writer, he was a businessman, patron of the arts, campaigner for the preservation of architecture, collaborator of Charles Keene, book designer, col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Nunn (songwriter)
Robert Nunn (1808 – 2 May 1853), better known as Bobby Nunn, was an English concert-hall songwriter and performer in the 19th century. His most famous song is possibly "The Fiery Clock Fyece". A roof slater by trade, after suffering a serious injury that cost him his vision, he was unable to continue employment, taking up music to support his wife and three children. Life Nunn was born in Newcastle. He was a roof slater by trade, but a tragic accident occurred, a fall from the roof of a house after being struck by lightning, causing him to lose his vision and two of his fingers. After the accident he was unable to continue his trade and turned to his talents as a musician. Fortunately, as a young man, he had played both the triangle and the fiddle in his school orchestra, allowing him to earn his living as an accomplished fiddle player to support his family – a wife, a daughter and two sons. He lived as an entertainer, singing his own songs in the evenings in clubs and small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bishoprick Garland (1834, By Sharp)
''The Bishoprick Garland'' is a book compiled by Cuthbert Sharp which gives historical details of people, places and events from the Bishopric of Durham, and was published in 1834. Details ''The Bishoprick Garland'' – (full title – "The Bishoprick Garland, Or a collection of Legends, Songs, Ballads, &c. Belonging to the County of Durham. y Sir Cuthbert Sharpe. London: Nichols, and Baldwin & Cradock. 1834) is a book of approximately 84 pages, giving historical details of people, places, songs, poems and writers pertaining to the North East of England, and in particular the County of Durham or more correctly termed Bishoprick of Durham (using an obsolete spelling of bishopric). It contains Geordie folk songs (or extracts from) and contains over 150 such song/poem lyric extracts on over 80 pages, and was published in 1834. It was edited by (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp. Bibliographical details It is, as the title suggests (this meaning of garland being a collection of short literar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert Sharp
Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781–1849) was an English soldier, official and antiquary. Life The son of Cuthbert Sharp and of Susannah (sister of Brass Crosby), Sharp was an English soldier, official, and shipbuilder. He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham, England in 1781, and received his education at Greenwich under Charles Burney. There he formed a lasting friendship with Lord Lake and with Sir Edward Blakeney. When he was eighteen years old he served in Ireland during the rebellion as an officer in the fencible cavalry, a British regiment. When his regiment was disbanded, Sharp went to Edinburgh, and in 1803 visited Paris. There he was stranded by the resumption of hostilities at the conclusion of the Peace of Amiens, and detained, with other English visitors, as a prisoner of war. But by the influence of Claude Ambroise Régnier, the Minister of Justice, whom he knew, he was released on parole, and after a few years was allowed to leave for England. Sharp settled at Hartlepool a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wilson (poet)
Thomas Wilson (1773 – 9 May 1858) was a Tyneside poet, from Low Fell in Gateshead. His most famous work, written in the Geordie dialect, is '' The Pitman's Pay'', originally published between 1826 and 1830. Early life Wilson, was born on 14 November 1773 at Low Fell, now a suburb of Gateshead into a very poor family. Like many from the North East, he began his working life down the mines at one of the many local pits, starting as a trapper-boy at around the age of around 8 or 9 years old. He had the determination to better himself, and wanted to improve his life and so studied, educating himself to a high standard, before moving on to become a schoolmaster at an early age. Later life After a short stay in this job, he moved to a clerkship on Newcastle's Quayside. In 1803, Wilson followed this with a move to join a Tyneside engineering company run by Mr John Losh. He became a partner in the company in 1807 and the partnership changed its name to Losh, Wilson and Bell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Philip Robson
Joseph Philip Robson (or J. P. Robson) (1808 – 1870) was a Tyneside poet and writer of the 19th century. His most famous works are ''The Pitman’s Happy Times'' and "The Pawnshop Bleezin’" a comic description of the reactions of the various customers to the pawnshop going up in flames. He was a contemporary of other Geordie songwriters like George "Geordie" Ridley and Joe Wilson. Early life Joseph Philip Robson was born 24 September 1808 in Bailiffgate, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father was preparing for priesthood at Stonyhurst College when he suffered ill health, resulting in his inability to complete his training, and he became a Roman Catholic School teacher. Both of his parents died when he was very young, his mother when he was 6 and his father 2 years later, when he was only 8. J P Robson himself was apprenticed as a plane maker, but severely injured himself while lifting a heavy log. He was well educated and changed career directions, becoming, like his father, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Clerke (songwriter)
Thomas Clerke was a Sunderland singer/songwriter and poet from the seventeenth and/or eighteenth century. Thomas Clerke was said to be a “Gentleman of powerful convivial talents and the author of several spirited, and Anacreontic¹ songs” many of which are now attributed to others. He was said to be always cheerful and an outgoing member of society. His works were poetical and full of ready wit and sparkling humour. His works include :- * Sons of the Wear * Musical Club * Ode to Silver Street * Spottee – appears in The Bishoprick Garland by (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp and also A Beuk o’ Newcassell Sangs by Joseph Crawhall. * ’Tis all that I desire (actual title unknown) – an extract of which appears in The Bishoprick Garland. ¹ Anacreontic = in the manner of the Greek lyric poet Anacreon (?572–?488 BC), noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine - or (of verse) in praise of love or wine; amatory or convivial See also *Geordie dialect words * Cuthbert Shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spottee
Spottee was a character from the eighteenth century, thought to be a stranded French sailor, who after living rough and begging, found a Sea cave, north of the River Wear estuary, to the north of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, and which he made his home. Legend Some rumours say that he was thought to be a stranded foreign sailor (some say French) who could not speak English. Other tales tell of his ship being wrecked on the rocks along the Roker coast and as he couldn't afford to rebuild it he became, in effect, shipwrecked. As he could not speak the language he could not converse with the locals, Spottee was thought by some to be a poor lunatic, and is so referred to in The Bishoprick Garland 1834 by Sharp, The Bishoprick Garland by (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp. He earned his name from the spotted shirt he wore. He set up his home in a cave, which eventually bore his name, becoming Spottee’s Cave. He earned his living by begging and doing odd jobs for local farmers. Rumour h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John "Jack" Shield
John "Jack" Shield (1768– 6 August 1848) was an English songwriter. One of his best known and liked songs at the time was "Bob Cranky's Adieu". Shield was a contemporary of the earliest Geordie dialect songwriters Thomas Thompson and John Selkirk. Early life He was born at Broomhaugh, a village in Northumberland near Riding Mill in the Tyne Valley in 1768. He and his elder brother, Hugh, moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in John's twenties, and the first real mention of him was in 1800 when they were running the family's large wholesale/grocery business, which they had built up. The business was in Middle Street, facing the Cloth Market and opposite where the "White Hart" stood. In 1803, his name is on a petition protesting against taxes. Shield had a free and easy nature, was remarkably quiet and inoffensive, and, it seems, wrote dialect materials as a hobby. His brother Hugh was the opposite and could have a fiery temper. His first poetic/musical offering appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keel Row
"The Keel Row" is a traditional Tyneside folk song evoking the life and work of the keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne. A closely related song was first published in a Scottish collection of the 1770s, but may be considerably older, and it is unclear whether the tune is Scottish or English in origin. The opening lines of the song set it in Sandgate, that part of the quayside overlooking the River Tyne to the east of the city centre where the keelmen lived and which is still overlooked by the Keelmen's Hospital. Origins Versions of the song appear in both England and Scotland, with Scottish versions referring to the Canongate rather than Sandgate. The earliest printing was in the 1770s in Edinburgh in ''A Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes'', edited by Charles Maclean, though the tune was also found in several late eighteenth-century English manuscript collections.Gregory, ''The Late Victorian Folksong Revival'', Scarecrow Press, 2010, p. 203 Frank Kidson surmised that like many oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Emery (songwriter)
Robert Emery (26 September 1794 – 28 March 1871) was a Tyneside songwriter, born in Edinburgh in Scotland. Possibly his best known work is " Hydrophobie" (sometimes called "The Skipper and the Quaker"), an example of Geordie dialect. Life Robert Emery was born in Edinburgh on 26 September 1794. His family moved to Newcastle upon Tyne when he was young. He served his apprenticeship as a printer with Mr Angus, bookseller and printer, of The Side, Newcastle, and continued as a journeyman printer for many years in the town. His early professional writing was of children's nursery rhymes for penny and halfpenny books. In 1814 he wrote the first two verses of a song about the great frost of 1813 with co-writer Thomas Binney. He moved to Lamberts in Grey Street and whilst there, apparently wrote a song each year for his fellow work mates for their annual trip. He became self-employed, forming his own printing company about 1850, with premises in Silver Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |