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Description: | This photograph shows the music and dancing displays at the celebrations for the launch of the lifeboat at Cullercoats. The dancers are the Cullercoats fishwives. The date of the photograph is not known, though we do know that two life boats were launched at Cullercoats in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, one in 1884 and the other in 1907. Although the latter date is more likely, it is possible that the photograph could date to as early as 1884.The picture forms part of a collection held by Beamish Museum. The photographs come from various sources and range in date from 1880 to 1932. Amongst the subjects are famous Northumbrian pipers Tom Green and Thomas Clough, as well as local composer and character Tommy Armstrong. The collection also includes some of the earliest photographs of clog and rapper dance teams and provides a rare visual archive of traditional music at this time. ; A collection of photographs of North-East composers, musicians and performers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Beamish Museum | Subjects: | clog dancing & fish wives & lifeboats festivities | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:B0700901 | Go to resource |
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