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"Thus thrown on the townships them poor men you'll see, And that an increase ov the poor-rate will be".:- Municiple work projects were undertaken in the area partly to provide relief for discharged soldiers and sailors. [Ref: Hodgson, p140]
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"Come, buy up my song" suggests that the song was written and/or performed by a ballad seller and sold as a broadside.
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"Ne less than a tunnel thro' under the 'Tyne":- Ralph Dodd, a civil engineer (died 1822) proposed a tunnel under the Tyne between North and South Shields. He also proposed the Thames Tunnel later built by Brunel. [Ref: Daily News 4th May 1925 "An Old Shields Tunnel Project"]

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"The boats we shall want, we'll call Tom and Jerry," Pierce Egan's 'History of Tom and Jerry; or the day and night scenes of life in London' was published in 1820 to great success
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The ferry run by the North and South Shields Ferry Company began service in 1829. However; steamers had been carrying passengers on the Tyne since 1818 [Ref: Lewenhak, Sheila. Steamships and Shipbuilders of the Industrial Revolution]. The use of the future tense (e.g. "Then away to St Steven's, and get a Steam Act" and "But we ne'er need delay, if we a had Steam Ferry") suggests that the song predates the establishment of the ferry.

  1. [Note: 647.3]
  2. [Note 647.4]
  3. [Note 647.5]
  4. [Note 647.6]

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