Dave Brady (RIP) came north most weeks to sell carpets in northeast markets. Newcastle Quayside Sunday, Darlington Hexham & Stockton after that.
He had a good spot on the Quayside & one day he was late getting there & an Asian trader took his spot. He was warned what would happen if Dave arrived - he didn't move, and sure enough the trader and all his goods finished up in the Tyne, which was very smelly in the 60s.
Swan arcade often did the Marsden Inn club in South Shields & he had a disconcerting habit (espcially for the more genteel ladies) of using his one arm to scratch his goolies while on stage.
Think it was after we (the Marsden Rattlers) did the Topic club in Bradford that we stayed with him in Cullingworth & I and my wife got a very cheap carpet to take back to the Northeast!- that must have been about 1970, I'd guess.