Sea shanty until that decade. A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel "Treasure Island" (1883). Quotes of "Blow the Man Down" were particularly plentiful. Rudyard Kipling romanticized the idea of the sailor's sea song within the poetic genre with his works "The First Chantey" and "The Last Chantey" (1893). While shanties were historically understood as work songs, the word "shanty" has often been used in popular culture since the mid-20th century as a catch-all term that
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea when he wrote his best-selling novel "Room at the Top". Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a small town in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast. Once an important port for shipping grain and a coal mining town, it is still a small fishing port making use of traditional coble boats. Newbiggin derives its name from the Old English "nīwe" (new) + Middle English "bigging" (building, house), and may refer to an extension of the early settlement and parish of Woodhorn. The church was for centuries a chapel only, with a tower surmounted by a spire which was originally used as a