I'm afraid there's not much detail in this message, but it does at least confirm that someone else has provenanced the song with the same result.

Christine Kidd sings a lovely, unaccompanied, version on her CD "Heading Home" (Fellside FECD93). Her note to the song says "The album 'The Banks of the Tyne' by Carolyn Robson has long since disappeared from my record collection, but I know she reckons this beautiful song was written by a Newcastle street singer by the name of Doubleday".

Malcolm.