In Newcastle on Tyne ev'ry year, On the Town Moor there is a fair, The Hoppings in the last full week of June. The largest travelling fair around, Gets the show off the ground, Race Saturday commencing at twelve noon.
The Hoppings Song
Song Lyrics
Cramlington Village Fair
One sunny Sat'day morning, aroon the middle of June, The wife sez "We're gannin' oot it opens at twelve noon", The place was packed when we arrived, the Mayor of Blyth was there, And we had a good time at the Cramlington Village Fair
That’s Northumbria
Lyrics and background to the song That's Northumbria, written by Wilf Mitford.
The Coast at Whitley Bay
When aa was a lad a holiday was a daytrip to the sea With a bag full o' sandwiches, some pop and a flask of tea There'd be me, me mother and father, me sisters and Aunty may Heading for wa holidays at the coast at Whitley Bay We'd get the train from the Felling, … Continue reading The Coast at Whitley Bay
From Seaton Sluice to Sydney
Words & Music by Wilf Mitford
What have they done to Gateshead?
A song about the changing face of Gateshead from the 1950s to the 1970s for an expat, and few thoughts on where Gateshead is today for this expat.
The Pitman Poet
CHORUS : So here's to the memory of Tommy Armstrong He was the pitman poet, righting all life's wrongs In the words of his poems which are now folk songs Here's to the memory of Tommy Armstrong He was the pitman poet, recording life and times In the late eighteen hundreds in his verses and … Continue reading The Pitman Poet
The Felling Shore
by Wilf Mitford Aa mind Sunday mornings doon by the Felling ShoreWith me Father and me sisters when we would all exploreThe place where he was born and bred, before the first world warHe would show us where he used to live, knocked down some years before CHORUSThough the people and the hooses were replaced … Continue reading The Felling Shore
The Jarrow Marchers
by Wilf Mitford, 1986 On the fifth of October on a bright and sunny day Nineteen hundred and thirty-six, they set out on their way There were two boys and a woman, two hundred and seven men And a dog known as paddy, who left and returned again CHORUS : They were the Jarrow Marchers, … Continue reading The Jarrow Marchers
Mitford Music 