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Description: | This collection comprises a selection of songs from 'Tales and ballads of wearside' by John Green. The book was published in London by Walter Scott in 1885. The volume is principally concerned with the characters and activities of the River Wear. Equally as devoted to industry as the Tyne in the nineteenth century, the Wear would have been populated by keelman and other boatmen ferrying the products of industry to ships and other transports. By the time this book was published, however, many of the occupations found on the river earlier in the century had all but died out. Keelmen in particular, a common subject of Green's songs, would have be becoming a distant memory by the time these songs were printed. This is the fourth edition of 'Tales and ballads of Wearside', and a testament to its popularity at the time. ; A collection of songs and sketches by John Green | Publisher: | Walter Scott | Rights holder: | rights holder : Border History Museum | Subjects: | Warwick Lane ; London | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:H1100000 | Go to resource |
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