Evidently a Sheels man, he contrives to cap Thompson, who, in making "Canny Newcassel" marrow the "Streets o' Lunnin" had not done amiss".
[1][2] The only two works of his which seem to have survived are : Canny Sheels – showing that London compares poorly with Shields.
The author's name and his "Canny Sheels" first appeared in Davidson of Alnwick's "Collection of Tyneside Songs" published in 1840.
Thomas Allan in his 1891 version of "Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings" publishes details of "Canny Sheels" only but refers to "Permanent Yeast" as being a second song by him "but it is much inferior to the first".
Geordie dialect words The Tyne Songster (W & T Fordyce, 1840) W & T Fordyce (publishers) France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850 P. France & Co. Joseph Philip Robson Thomas Allan (publisher) Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings