J. W. Swanston was a
Newcastle printer, and publisher of many
Chapbook
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In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookle ...
s. The premises were in St Andrews Street, off Gallowgate, and is now quite near
St James' Park, the home of
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...
, although this ground was not built until 1892, at the time of Swanston it was just a patch of sloping grazing land, near the Town Moor, and owned by the Freemen of the City.
Swanston was responsible for the publication and printing of numerous
Chapbook
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch.
In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookle ...
s, of which one noted version was
The Tyneside Songster.
He was also a member of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club"
His published and printed works include :-
*
Nine Hours’ Movement; A History of the engineers’ strike in Newcastle and Gateshead
* Social Science and the Liquor Traffic: The Judgment of Science, of Philanthropy, and of Intellect, an 8-page pamphlet printed in 1870
* Several pamphlets for the Northern Reform League for James McKendrick
* Several Chapbooks including
The Tyneside Songster
See also
*
Geordie dialect words
Geordie () is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitute ...
*
The Tyneside Songster by J W Swanston
References
External links
FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East – front coverFARNE archive – click “Tyneside songster” and “go”
People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district)
Northumbrian folklore
Music publishing companies of the United Kingdom
English folk songs
Music in Newcastle upon Tyne
Geordie songwriters
19th-century births
Year of death unknown
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