Tyneside Stories & Recitations is a chapbook of Geordie folk songs consisting of six volumes. As it stated on the covers, the publications were compiled and edited by Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington. It was published by J. G. Windows Ltd. on Central Arcade, Newcastle.
The books cost initially 1/= (One Shilling), and although undated, it is thought that the books were published in the 1930s, although according to "A Dictionary of North East Dialect" 2005 [1] they were printed in 1917. .
Charles Ernest Catcheside-Warrington.edited the six volumes of "Tyneside Stories & Recitations", a series of small booklets each of around 32 pages long and containing a mixture of songs, verse, recitations and stories, all by local Tyneside writers, some well-known, others new to the readers.
The contents of these volumes, unlike the previous four volumes of "Tyneside Songs", are less value historically, but nevertheless give the readers a feel of the lives and times of previous generations.
The volumes and their contents are below :-
vol | page | title | songwriter | tune | comment | notes | ref | ||||||||
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Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 1 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 32 [2] | |||||||||||||||
1 | Jackie Rodison's Cooking | W J Robson | |||||||||||||
1 | Cuddy Cairt (The) | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
1 | Je ne Comprend pas | local | |||||||||||||
1 | Jackie Robison dines oot | W J Robson | |||||||||||||
1 | Pit Stockins | local | |||||||||||||
1 | Garrety stories (The) | local | |||||||||||||
1 | Ralphy Dodds on the Bench | local | |||||||||||||
1 | S-s-s-arah S-s-s-impson | local | |||||||||||||
Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 2 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 32 pages [3] | |||||||||||||||
2 | Haaks's Men (Recitation) | John Atlantic Stephenson | |||||||||||||
2 | Glass Eye (The) | R O Heslop | |||||||||||||
2 | Adam and Eve | John Atlantic Stephenson | A Wearside Story | ||||||||||||
2 | Keeker's Cat (The) | R O Heslop | |||||||||||||
2 | Trip to South Shields (A) | A Tomlinson | |||||||||||||
2 | Commarcial Traveller (The) | local | |||||||||||||
2 | No Cadgin' | T C Campbell | |||||||||||||
2 | Jack's Apology | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
2 | Good Singer (A) | local | |||||||||||||
Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 3 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 32 pages [4] | |||||||||||||||
3 | Tow for Nowt – (A) | John Atlantic Stephenson | A Recitation | ||||||||||||
3 | Looking for the Colonel | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Postponed Goose – (The) | John Atlantic Stephenson | A Wearside Tale | ||||||||||||
3 | When AA Was A Sowljor | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
3 | If he Gans, AA Gan | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Didn't Want to Smell them | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Me Belge | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Scratch Away | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Wrong Boots (The) | Robert Plumpton | |||||||||||||
3 | Pair of Gondolas (A) | local | |||||||||||||
3 | Billy Shyfella's Love Story | Joe Wilson | |||||||||||||
3 | Let no man part on Sundays | W. J. Heggart | |||||||||||||
3 | Tale of the 10th Hussars (A) | Anon | |||||||||||||
3 | Ye fancy yourself Clivvor, but yo'r not | Harrison | |||||||||||||
Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 4 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 32 pages [5] | |||||||||||||||
4 | Fish wife and the Census Man (The) | F M Gascoigne | |||||||||||||
4 | Musical Evenings | Sir G Renwick, M.P. | |||||||||||||
4 | Keep Him Doon | Sir G Renwick, M.P. | |||||||||||||
4 | Timing a Pigeon | A Tomlinson | |||||||||||||
4 | Great Loss (A) | Sir G Renwick, M.P. | |||||||||||||
4 | Job for her Aad Man (A) | Sir G Renwick, M.P. | |||||||||||||
4 | Best Place in the World (The) | Walter Merritt | |||||||||||||
4 | Grand Old Man (The) | Walter Merritt | |||||||||||||
4 | Knew him by his "sweer" | S Wade | |||||||||||||
4 | Jarmin Beuts | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Guarding Bicycle | N Pattison | |||||||||||||
4 | Missed again | N Thompson | |||||||||||||
4 | Something very exceptional | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Not been introduced | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Say "Peterboro" | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Gardening on Sunday | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Pigeon Walked (The) | local | |||||||||||||
4 | Geordy Atty's Neet Oot | D A Larmoor | |||||||||||||
4 | Bogey Cheeky Band | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
4 | Newcassel Sang – (A) – or alternatively spelt "Newcastle Sang" | John Harbottle | |||||||||||||
Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 5 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 27 pages [6] | |||||||||||||||
5 | Coal Shortage (The) | local | |||||||||||||
5 | Height of Ignorance | local | |||||||||||||
5 | Pitman's Piano (The) | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
5 | Dog Stories | local | |||||||||||||
5 | Death Rate (The) | local | |||||||||||||
5 | Romance of a Cock Eye (The) | ||||||||||||||
5 | Ringing the Pig | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
5 | Owther | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
5 | His Nick Name | local | |||||||||||||
5 | He Wanted A Medal | ||||||||||||||
5 | Hard Crust | ||||||||||||||
5 | Motor Car "B.C. 452" | ||||||||||||||
5 | Be careful what you take | ||||||||||||||
5 | Demoralised | local | |||||||||||||
5 | Stick to Beer | ||||||||||||||
Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 6 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 28 pages [7] | |||||||||||||||
6 | Phoebe Lizzie's Wedding | A. C. Hudson | |||||||||||||
6 | Heavy Suet Pudden (A) | H. Sullivan | |||||||||||||
6 | Flying Jacket (The) | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | What Gladstone did in '69 | Anon | |||||||||||||
6 | Lost Weskit (The) | local | |||||||||||||
6 | Reduced Coinage | local | |||||||||||||
6 | Caad Dickey (A) | local | |||||||||||||
6 | Bod and the Babby (The) | A. Tomlinson | |||||||||||||
6 | Barry Three Mair | A. Tomlinson | |||||||||||||
6 | Divvent Wake 'im | A. Tomlinson | |||||||||||||
6 | In the barber's | local | |||||||||||||
6 | Men of Few Words | G. Brown | |||||||||||||
6 | Girl who lost her Character (The) | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | Thors alwes the Dole | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | Cheerful Funeral (A) | Edythe Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | Servant "Guest" (The) | Edythe Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | Thor's ne Pig | C. E. C-Warrington | |||||||||||||
6 | Funeral Joke (A) | local | |||||||||||||
6 | Scanty Evening Dress | local |
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