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241:"The Skipper's visit to the 'Polytechnic'". The tune is "X Y Z.", and describes the visit of a fictional keelboat skipper to the 1848 Polytechnic exhibition. It was printed on a chapbook type leaflet which was distributed as an advertisement for the event.
238:"Sandgate pant" (or "Jane Jemieson's ghost"). The tune is "I'd be a Butterfly". It is a song about a keelman being frightened by the ghost of Jane Jemieson, a street vendor, executed on 7 March 1829 on Newcastle's Town Moor for the murder of her mother.
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Newcastle upon Tyne and the neighbourhood. Part VI, &c." by John
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