2024
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October 8th
PRESIDENT’S NEET June Schofield 
"Friends Remembered"
On this evening, our president will choose her favourite poems or prose in Lancashire dialect written by our past presidents and other friends. |
November 12th
"Dialect Decoded" Sid Calderbank 
A native speaker of Lancashire Dialect,
Sid has been collecting dialect songs and stories from Lancashire for over 40 years. Sid will be drilling down into the many Lancashire dialect words and explaining their history, usage and meanings . |
December 10th
A Merry Yuletide Kesmas Party 
On this evening, members are invited to present their favourite dialect item with a Christmas theme, be it a poem, story or song.
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In the Chair
June Schofield Waugh Reading Jim Parker |
In the Chair
Jim Saville Waugh Reading Marylin Moore |
In the Chair
Alison Cooper Waugh Reading Dave Wood |
2025
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Tuesday January 14th
The Whit'o'th Doctors Presented by Brian Furness 
Two hundred years ago members of the Taylor family, of Whitworth, a small hamlet near Rochdale were veterinary surgeons, or horse doctors, as the phrase was. Somehow, and this really is a mystery, they set their sights on humans and became the most celebrated doctors in the country. Find out more about them tonight.
In the Chair Stewart Chadwick Waugh Reading Alyson Brailsford |
Tuesday February 11th "Growing old gracefully in song and rhyme" Val Fielding 
A lighthearted look at getting old
...which happens to us all. Val promises a comical slant of life in her poems. In the Chair
Ian Aitchison Waugh Reading June Schofield |
Tuesday March 11th
Annual Suppering-Do Edwin Waugh’s Birthday Celebration and Trophy Presentation Evening More details of the supper here. 
Trophies Presented by Stewart Chadwick In the Chair Stewart Chadwick Waugh Reading Tom Byrne |
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Tuesday April 8th
7:00pm Annual General Meeting 7:30pm approx Edwin Waugh - "The Lancashire Burns" Sid Calderbank
The life and times of Edwin Waugh, our eponymous hero, and Lancashire’s most famous writer, illustrated through his poetry and prose.
In the Chair
Alyson Brailsford Waugh Reading Ian Aitchison |
Tuesday May 13th
"Besom Ben and other Lancashire Folk Tales” Alison Cooper 
In the Chair Dave Wood Waugh Reading Jim Saville |
Tuesday June 13th
"Lancashire Lady Writers' Neet" 
Poems from Annie Campbell, Edith Ralph and other 'Owdhammers'
In the Chair
Marylin Moore Waugh Reading Alyson Brailsford |
Summer Event
T.B.C.