Joshua L Bagnall was a
Tyneside
Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in northern England. Residents of the area are commonly referred to as Geordies. The whole area is surrounded by the North East Green Belt.
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composer of the early and mid-19th century.
Details
Bagnall was a
Tyneside
Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in northern England. Residents of the area are commonly referred to as Geordies. The whole area is surrounded by the North East Green Belt.
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singer/songwriter. In the late 19th century he published a small book of his own Tyneside songs.
Bagnall became proprietor of the Oxford Music Hall c. 1865. The change of name for "The Wheatsheaf Music Hall" (previously "
Balmbra's Music Hall
Balmbra's Music Hall was an early Music Hall in the centre of Newcastle, England, in the middle of the 19th century.
In about 1848 a first floor room of the Wheatsheaf Public House at 6 Cloth Market, Newcastle, was opened and in later advertisem ...
") to the "Oxford Music Hall" appeared in advertisements c. 1865, and with the new name came a new ownership/management, in the form of (described in
Allan's Tyneside Songs as "spirited") Joshua L Bagnall and Walter William Blakey.
Whilst in this position he seems to have concentrated his writing skills solely to the Christmas pantomimes. There is no record of the length of his stay at the Oxford, but the advertisements for events at the Oxford appeared to cease c. 1879, which would point to its closure as a music hall.
Bagnall later became the landlord of "The Cannon Public House", Durham Road,
Low Fell
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,
Gateshead
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.
Songs
Several of the songs attributed to him appear in ''
The Songs of the Tyne being a collection of Popular Local Songs Number 10'', published by
John Ross, Printer and Publisher, Royal Arcade,
Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
*Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England
*Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England
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These songs are:
*Calleyforney O ! (in volume 1) to the tune of Polly Parker
* Tom Johnson (in volume 5) to the tune of Tallygrip
* Tommy Carr's discussion wiv his wife, on the choice of a trade for their son Jack (in volume 6) to the tune of Cappy, or The Pitman's Dog
* The Pitman's museum (in volume 7)
* Callerforney - A dialogue (in volume 7) to the tune of Alley Creaker
* Two Hundred Years to come (in volume 8) to the tune of Days we went gipsying
In addition to these songs
*Yer gannin to be a keelman, sung by
Edward Corvan
Edward "Ned" Corvan (c. 1830 – 1865) was a Tyneside concert hall songwriter and performer, and a contemporary of George "Geordie" Ridley. His songs were printed in a modified English orthography designed to represent the traditional dialect ...
, was originally composed by Joshua L. Bagnall according to "A collection of songs by North-East Music Hall artist Ned Corvan"
*
Cuddy Willy's Deeth, appears in
Allan's Tyneside Songs on page 522 and
Walker’s Songs of the Tyne volume 2 page 18
See also
*
The Cannon
A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during ...
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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 ...
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The Songs of the Tyne
References
External links
Farne Archive - Songs of the Tyne; being a collection of popular local songs. Nos.1, 4-10Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings
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English male songwriters
People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district)
Musicians from Tyne and Wear
Geordie songwriters
