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Description: | Song on the Australian gold rush.Emigration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century was generally associated with paupers and criminals and only taken up when faced with extreme hardship. America however, was regarded as a rather more fashionable destination than some of the colonies and in the 1830s and 1840s a number of emigration societies were formed. The discovery of gold in America and then in Victoria, Australia in 1854, also brought a rush of emigration to what had previously been unpopular destinations. On Tyneside a number of men chose to leave their native shores, most likely in the face of unemployment, or gruelling industrial labour with long hours and low pay.This comic song describes what the author will do with his riches when he returns from California with gold. The song was written by J. Bagnall and is part of the John Bell Collection. John Bell was an avid collector of popular poems, songs, and pamphlets and long-term librarian to the Society of Antiquaries 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: | travel & gold rush & emigration & America travel and adventure | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0503701 | Go to resource |
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