He left nothing when he died. A tasteful part of the programme consisted in imitations of classic statuary by a young gentleman whose name we could not learn…Messrs. Lamb and Kitchen performed a pantomimic interlude of the usual character and they were succeeded on the stage by Mr.
Ridley, a noted singer of Tyneside songs. Ridley adapted to a popular air a ballad descriptive of a journey in prospect by road to the ensuing Blaydon Races.
While the dialect is easily and naturally given, there is nothing coarse in the rendering of these songs but they are such as the most refined audience might hear and be amused withal. The Gateshead Observer did not print an obituary for Ridley. Possible Source for the Song. As the author notes, borrowing from one song to another was a standard practice of the time. Two forty in the sand and the old horse a blowing. O my, you had ought to see us skyting. Further research has turned up one other similar song from the period:.
Me and my friends took a ride with a gallus horse and wagon,. Irving ,. William C. Irving was born at Ainstable, Cumberland. His father was a farmer. The family moved to Tyneside when he was an infant. He attended the Newcastle upon Tyne School of Art. When studies were completed, his teacher, Cosens Way, recommended him for employment as an illustrator for the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. His work was published in the newspaper from c. He worked on projects ranging from illustrating popular news articles to portraits of famous local characters.
He drew several popular cartoons for the Chronicle; his most famous character was Geordie Pitman, a comic Geordie stereotype who wore checked trousers. Irving received two commissions to paint portraits of Joseph Cowen, from the Chronicle and from Cowen, himself, which enabled him to pay for travel to Paris where he attended the Julien Studio studying painting.
Irving returned to Newcastle and started painting in a new style which was widely acclaimed by critics and the public. Iriving also worked producing advertisements for local businesses, and illustrations for their carrier bags. William Irving died in Jesmond in Billy Sup Up of Crawcrook. An Ovingham Worthy. Auston Dobson on Ovington Worthies, The winter-night tales of wild exploits in the huntingfield, and legends of the Border Wars, were a never-failing source of pleasure.
By the woful "laments," such as those for the last Earl of Derwentwater, with whose death it was supposed prosperity had for ever departed from Tyneside, he was often affected to tears. Of some of the cottagers on the fell—poor men whose little store consisted of a few sheep, a Kyloe cow, or a flock of geese, and whose sole learning was derived from Holy Writ, old ballads, and local histories—he has left portraits which show how deeply they had impressed him.
One of these was Will Bewick, a self-taught astronomer, skilled in stars and planets, upon which he would discourse, "pointing to them with his large hands, and eagerly imparting his knowledge.
Liddell's ordinary appearance—judging from the description of it in the "Memoir"—must have been almost as remarkable as that of Fielding's "Man of the Hill "—. In other respects he was like no other person. In what king's reign his hat had been made was only to be guessed at, but the flipes [flaps] of it were very large. His wig was of the large curled kind, such as was worn about the period of the revolution. His waistcoat, or doublet, was made of the skin of some animal.
His buckskin breeches were black and glossy with long wear, and of the same antiquated fashion as the rest of his apparel. Thus equipt, and with his fierce look, he made a curious figure when taken before the justices of the peace; and this, together with his always—when summoned before them — undauntedly pleading his own cause, often afforded them so much amusement that it was difficult for them to keep their gravity.
A third Ovingham worthy was Thomas Forster, called familiarly "Tom Howdy" midwife from his mother's occupation, with his stock of secret beehives in the whin bushes; and last, but by no means least, come the swarming old soldiers let loose upon the country at the conclusion of the "Seven Years' War"—old comrades in Napier's and Kingsley's, full of memories of Minden and Lord George Sackville—of James Wolfe and Quebec.
Bewick's strong abhorrence of war, which appears so plainly in the later pages of the "Memoir," had not yet been developed, and he listened eagerly to these weatherbeaten campaigners, with their tarnished uniforms and their endless stories about their prowess in the field.
Blind Bob of Scotswood. Sometimes he rode the donkey right into this room, which poor old blind Bob would be waiting to pass judgment on the One day, unknown to his father, the boy bought a considerable length of copper wire in Newcastle , made a kite and Nanny the Mazer, Scotswood.
Partner of Ned White at the dances …- Horsley, P. See Song Section Above. Was he Ned Wright or White? No one knows. George the Plunger, Durham. The Swalwell Cat Among the Pigeons.
Arthur Daley a. A well known Card Shark and Con man. Honest Bob, Gateshead. Robert Chambers, the renowned aquatic champion of the Tyne and Thames, whose sterling integrity won for him the happy distinction of "Honest Bob," was born at St. Anthony's, on the 14th of June His earlier years were spent at Hawks's, in whose extensive ironworks on the Tyne he worked his way up until he reached the position of a puddler. His after career, under the guidance of Clasper, was unparalleled.
He rowed in races, winning 89 times; he started 45 times in skiffs, and won 34 times; he took part in 45 four-oared races, and won 40; he rowed in 19 pair contests, and won For six years he held the championship of the Thames and was the first Tyneside oarsman that ever won the proud title of the "Champion of the World. Anthony's on the 4th of June , in his thirtyseventh year. Written on the occasion of the great scullers' race for the championship of the world, between Robert Chambers, of Newcastle, and Richard A.
Green, of Australia, June 16th, Chambers won easily by a quarter of a mile. See song section above. Cuddy Billy, a.
Joshua I. Bagnall, one of the spirited proprietors of the Oxford Music Hall, some years ago published a small volume of Tyneside songs. Several in the collection became popular. Since he undertook the management of the "Oxford " which he has raised to a high state of popularity , he seems to have confined his efforts solely to the Christmas pantomimes produced at that hall, which are understood to be from his pen.
The "Oxford" is closed, and has been for years except as a free and easy , but Mr. Bagnall is still to the fore as landlord of "The Cannon," Low Fell. About local songs, he appears to have written none for many years. William Maclachlan, better known as "Cuddy Willy," was a well-known eccentric of Newcastle. For years he wandered the streets without hat or shoes, and in clothes of the scantiest and most tattered description.
He contrived to live by frequenting public-houses, and by playing his fiddle in the streets. His fiddle was a curiosity, made by himself: it was simply a fiat piece of wood, on which he tied a few pieces of string. He was addicted to drink; and his death was caused by some parties most shamefully, at a public-house, giving him brandy as long as he would drink it.
The result was, he drank to such an excess that he died from the effects. His death took place September 27th, Cull Willie. Cull Billy, a. William Scott, of Newburn. Image: William Scott from Sykes. THIS well known character, William Scott, commonly called Cull Billy, a name known in most parts of the north, is a native of Newcastle, where he resided along with his mother, a poor old woman, who made her living by retailing wooden ware; she like her son was an object of distress, being not above four feet high.
Oft have they followed him around the streets, beating and hooting him, as boys hunt a cat or dog; and yet no notice was taken of this, until one, more compassionate than the rest, stept forward and interceded for him, in the following lines, which were published in the Newcastle Chronicle of the 28th of August, , with the signature of J.
Soon after the publication of this, the overseers of the parish of Saint John's, in which parish Billy resided had him conveyed to their Poor House, without the walls of Newcastle, where he was kept confined until the turbulence of his spirit was reduced. Several persons have felt the power of Billy's wit, which on some occasions has been very severe. I never give way to fools! July 31 Died, in St. John's poor-house, in Newcastle, aged 68 years, William Scott, better known by the name of Cull Billy, one of the eccentric characters of that town, and though subject to general aberration of mind, yet he often astonished persons by his shrewd answers to questions when put to him.
When I first knew Billy, he lived with his mother, a poor old woman, in the Pudding Chare, Newcastle, who gained a livelihood by selling wooden and earthen ware. His mother, who was only four feet in height, was almost as great an object of pity as her son. Being the widow of a free burgess, she and her daughter were admitted inmates of the hospital for the widows of decayed merchants, in the Manor Chare, where she died, and her daughter was afterwards found burnt to death in her apartment.
Being perfectly harmless unless raised to madness by ill usage , his forlorn and pitiable condition aroused on his behalf a very able defender, who, under the signature of J. Whence those yells that wound my ear?
Tis the hapless child of sorrow! Tis poor Billy's plaint I hear. Now in tatter'd plight I see him,. Teazing crowds around him press; Ah!
None his injuries redress? Mr Scott said he wanted to rewrite the song so that, in the future, it would show people what the area was like at the time, just like the original song did. The tune and the chorus of the song have been kept the same, but the verses have been brought up to date with more recent roads and landmarks added.
Mr Scott said: "It was great looking at the original route and the route now through their [the listeners'] eyes. Mr Scott said: "I was really honoured to be asked to do it. I'm really happy with the way it's turned out - I love the track. Train named after famous anthem. In pictures: Blaydon Race's queen. Appeal to rewrite Geordie anthem. We flew past Armstrong's factory an' up to the "Robin Adair", Just gannin' doon te the railway bridge the bus wheel flew off there; The lasses lost thor crinolines an' the vails that hide thor faces; Aa got two black eyes an' a broken nose i' ga'n te Blaydon Races.
When we gat the wheel put on, away we went agyen, But them that had thor noses broke they cam' back-ower hyem; Sum went to the dispensary, an sum to Dr. Gibb's, An sum to the Informary to mend thor broken ribs. Noo when we gat te Paradise thor wes bonny gam begun, Thor wes fower an'twenty on the bus, man how they danced an' sung, They caalled on me te sing a song, Aa sang them "Paddy Fagan"; Aa danced a jig an' swung me twig that day Aa went te Blaydon.
We flew across the Chine bridge reet inti' Blaydon Toon, The bellman he wes caallin' there, they caalled him jacky Broon, Aa saa him taakin' te sum cheps an' them he wes persuadin' Te gan an' see Geordie Ridley's show in the Mechanic's Haall at Blaydon.
The rain it poored aall the day an' myed the groonds quite muddy, "Coffee Johnny" had a white hat on-they yelled, "Whe stole the cuddy? Glossary: Aa - I tyuk - took gannin - going agyen - again hyem - home caaled - called intev - into myed - made cuddy - horse wes - was roundeboot - roundabout Some notes on the song: George Ridley, born Gateshead , injured at work so turned to singing comic songs for a living. Later wrote his own songs and wrote this one in , four days before the races, and which advertised his own show and also Balmbra's The Wheatsheaf Inn music hall.
The last verse was likely written after the races, which were washed out due to heavy rain, and sung at his show in the Mechanics Hall, Blaydon that night.
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