# Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Stories & Recitations

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 they were printed in 1917. .

## The publication

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.

## Contents

The volumes and their contents are below :-
| vol | title | songwriter | comment |
| Tyneside Stories & Recitations Vol 1 – collected, edited and told by C. E. Catcheside-Warrington – 32 ||||||||
| 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 ||||||||
| 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 ||||||||
| 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 ||||||||
| 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 ||||||||
| 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 ||||||||
| 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 | |