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Description: | This song tells the story of a man who calls at the Lead Mine shop (a building used for sleeping, or eating and preparing food) - he laments his wasted inheritance and his difficulty in obtaining work.The song forms part of a selection of songs and poems by late nineteenth century poet Richard Watson. The book was published in 1930, some 40 years after the poet's death and was printed in Darlington by William Dresser and Sons. Watson was born on 16th March, 1833, in Middleton-in-Teesdale, to William Watson, a miner in the employment of the London Lead Company. After receiving a basic education at the Company's school it became clear that the family could not afford to maintain Watson's education and at the age of ten he commenced work in the local pit. Having displayed a talent for verse from an early age Watson was able to entertain his fellow pitmen with his compositions, and was eventually able to have his poems published in the local Teesdale Mercury. Most of the offerings in this collection are not written in dialect, but nevertheless do reflect many aspects of life in rural Teesside during the nineteenth century, and form one of only a small number of surviving song collections from this area. ; Songs by nineteenth century Teesdale poet Richard Watson | Publisher: | William Dresser and Sons High Row, Darlington, Teeside | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | unemployment & money & poverty Poverty Health And Welfare | Temporal: | start=1901;end=1940; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N3202302 | Go to resource |
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