S: Either way the title is ludicrous, as was Crawhall's intention as a well-heeled Antiquarian Novocastrian. To include Tommy Armstrong's songs in any collection of Newcassel Sangs is way off the mark anyway...

I've always thought of Tommy Armstrong as a *Durham* poet/ songwriter. He was born in Shotley Bridge and moved to Tanfield. Tanfield's marginally nearer to Newcastle than to Durham, certainly, but, AFAIK, he spent his life in the *Durham* coalfields and so would qualify only marginally, if at all, as a "Newcassel" songwriter.