Sam Browne belt Sam Browne belt The Sam Browne belt is a wide belt, usually leather, supported by a narrower strap passing diagonally over the right shoulder (although Royal Canadian Mounted Police non-commissioned members wear theirs over the left shoulder). It is most often a part of a military or police uniform. General Sir Sam Browne was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer who had lost his left arm; this made it difficult for him to draw his sword, because the left hand was typically used to steady the scabbard while the right drew out the sword. Browne came up with the idea
The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century Allan Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings W & T Fordyce The Tyne Songster P. France & Co. France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850 John Marshall Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827 John Ross The Songs of the Tyne by Ross William R Walker The Songs of the Tyne by Walker Thomas Marshall Marshall's A Collection of original local songs The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century The Newcastle Eccentrics were a group of unrelated people who lived in and around the centre of Newcastle and its Quayside between the end of the