Victorian china fairing company developed a mass production method that no other company could match, thereby achieving an advantage over other firms. The subject matter that inspired fairings varies widely and provides an interesting insight into the popular culture of the Victorian era. Popular songs and music hall numbers inspire some of them, such as "Jenny Jones and Ned Morgan" and "Champagne Charlie is my name". Others commemorate notable people or buildings such as Ladies of Llangollen (relating to the scandalous affair of Lady Eleanor Butler and Lady Sarah Ponsonby) or "The Model of Laxey" (the Laxey Wheel on the Isle of Mann,
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