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Description: | In this song two friends meet and discuss the robbery of a charity box from the local church - much of the song is taken up with the moral aspects of the crime and the subsequent outrage.This song forms part of a selection of songs and poems by late nineteenth century poet Richard Watson. The book was published in 1874 and 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 Darlington ; Teeside | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | law and order & religious and moral crimes & robbery & money | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N3301302 | Go to resource |
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