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Description: | Song written on a boat race on the River Tyne.One of a number of race songs, this broadside would have been printed before the race and sold on the day. The rise of shipbuilding on the Tyne had created thousands of skilled oarsmen. This created much rivalry between the boatmen on the Tyne and those of the River Thames and professional rowing events had become a common event on the Tyne by the mid nineteenth century.This song refers to the regions most famous oarsman, Harry Clasper. Clasper was a ferryman from Dunston who not only triumphed as a great oarsman, but was also an innovative boat designer.This song is part of thecollection. John Bell was an avid collector of popular poems, songs, and pamphlets and long-term librarian to the Society of Antiquities in Newcastle. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | unknown | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | entertainment and sport Leisure sport & races & rowing & rivers | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0405801 | Go to resource |
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