[Broadside] In Memoriam - Tay Bridge Disaster Song, 1879 - 1880

The tragedy of the locomotive plunging off the Tay Bridge in December 1879 due to gale force winds greatly affected the citizens of Dundee, Scotland - the destination of the North British Railway train traveling from Edinburgh. It is this loss that is the topic of this broadside. Many citizens of Dundee became poets trying to assuage their feelings of loss and wrote expressive poetry that was published in the form of broadside songs.