Hi there
I was in a folk group back in the late 60s and there was an old chap who was a regular at the Falcon Folk club, Stafford, who sang a song about Stafford Jail and a murder that had been committed by one of the inmates. It was very dramatic and possibly was originally a Victorian music hall song, he also used to sing a song about the Staffordshire Oatcake and the choice of fillings that could be got during the interval at Stoke theatre.....by the time he had got through the chorus a couple of times, you were just in the mood for an oaty or two!

I have a record somewhere in the house called 'On the Cut' with songs about the canals and narrowboats running on the Shroppie, when I was a poor student, I used to get paid to clean some of the boats in at Norbury Junction, there were a lot of singers and musicians on the cut in those days.