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Description: | Between 1824 and 1860 Richard Grainger embarked on an extensive scheme of town planning. The construction of 'Grainger Town' involved the demolition of most of the old markets, which centred around what was to become Mosley Street. The Flesh Market, vegetable market and the corn market were all demolished and rebuilt on new sites. The fish market, which like most of the other markets had originally been located on Sandhill was removed in 1826, when plans to extend an open colonnaded market next to the Guildhall were put to John Dobson.This is one of a number of song protesting, not only against the removal of the fish market, but also of the vegetable and flesh markets, from their original sites. Both Ross and Mitford also wrote songs on the removal of the fish market.Similar to the cheap press of today these poorly printed books and broadsides catered for popular tastes, being sold by chapmen in the country and booksellers in the town. Usually sold for no more than a penny, the production of these little books and broadsides were extremely profitable for most printers. Sold in bulk the material required little proof-reading, was widely plagiarised, and badly printed.Newcastle was the second largest producer of chapbooks in the country at the time of this book's publication. 'Songs of the Tyne' were a short series of chapbooks printed by, J. Ross of the Royal Arcade. This book forms no.6 of the 'Songs of the Tyne' series and was printed some time between 1847 and 1852. A number of the songs however, can be dated to the early nineteenth century, some such as 'The pitman's courtship' appearing as early as 1816. The 'Songs of the Tyne' series were reprinted by J. Walker of the Royal Arcade, sometime between 1857-66.The book contains some of the region's best known traditional songs. From 'Bob Cranky's adieu' to 'The fishwives lament', the book has offerings from well known Tyneside composers such as J. Bagnall and would have been extremely popular among the local population. ; Popular Tyneside songs published in chapbook form. | Publisher: | J. Ross Royal Arcade, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | protest & markets protest & shopping and trade | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N1802102 | Go to resource |
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