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Scribe Fraser |
Gordon Smith |
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There was a journalist in Blyth called John Fraser, better known as ‘Scribe’ Fraser, and he published the weekly Scribe and Woodhut News, because the place he housed his workshop in was a wooden hut in between two buildings, roughly where the Keel Row is now.
John Fraser produced a comic almanac every year. He was known as quite a scurrilous writer. If you went past John’s shop wearing a new hat, you’d be in the paper the next week, and he’d want to know where you’d got the money from! He’d produced a brochure, which says, for instance, that in the first carriage will be the ‘mayor’ of Blyth, Dicky Fynes. But Dicky Fynes was never the mayor of Blyth, but he was a local councillor, had been a miners’ leader, and when he couldn’t get work in the pits, he ended up running the Theatre Royal. Another character in the brochure was the ‘archbishop’ Andrew Colvin. Andrew Colvin was an evangelist in Blyth. He was never an archbishop, but he was known as St Andrew of Blyth, in fact that’s the title of his biography. |
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