My grandpa used to sing us this song and claimed that his grandpa had written the song. It could be plausible since his father moved to Scarborough and joined Catlins Pierots on the beach prior to that had moved from the music hall to play piano in cinemas in Leeds, he was supposed to have started in the music halls at a very young age with his father who was a performer. Trouble is they were called Smith and used Stage names and or ran away to Scarborough and used the name Smith cos he was always referred to by my mother as Grandad Clarke ie that used to belong to Grandad Clarke, mainly to old framed photo's of show girls in costume around the edwardian era, Mum used to say they were relatives but for the life of me I can't remember just who. Trouble is everyone and his dog (including my family) would lay claim to stuff!