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Description: | Song describing the pleasures of a local confectioners shop.In the early to mid nineteenth century Newcastle experienced a boom in the retail industry. In 1810 Collingwood Street was opened, extending the through route from Pilgrim street to Westgate and the bottom of Pudding Chare. The shops in these three new streets were 'of the attractively-appointed type with display windows'. By the beginning of the nineteenth century Pilgrim Street and the Side were no longer residential, the greater part of the streets having been converted into shops and inns. In these cramped older streets the shops were for the most part still of the open type which had been common in the Middle Ages.Songs such as the 'Itinerant confectioner' would have been distributed throughout Newcastle in order to advertise particular shops and businesses, much like television adverts of today. These songs were often in the form of a list of goods available from the shop. Jack Scrivener the grocer is another example of this type of song. The 'Itinerant confectioner' is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | unknown | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | shops & confectioners shopping and trade | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0100301 | Go to resource |
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