C109-00027
‘Jemmy Joneson’s Wherry’ (‘whurry’ in the vernacular) illustrates a Tyneside song by Thomas Thompson about a lively trip from Newcastle down the Tyne to ‘Sheilds’ written about 1800. (The dancer is Jemmy and the fiddler ‘Blind Willie Purvis)
Photographer: Gill Jones
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