Ah me lads, ye shud only seen us gannin'

I see from the paper that yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the journey to see the Blaydon races, immortalised in song.  I lived long enough in the north-east of England for the song to impress itself on my memory.

I even remember the celebrations for the centenary of the song fifty years ago.  One item I recall was a TV programme on Tyne-Tees television called Happy-go-Lucky which had time-travelling dream sequence when one of the cast found themself back in 1862.  (Can't find a reference to the show on the IMDb but I do recall that Jack Haig was in it, and he went on to play Leclerc in 'Allo, 'Allo.)

(Hmm, the attempt to embed a Youtube video doesn't look right, but if you are really interested, you can cut and paste the URL.)