EWDS
  • HOME
  • LATEST NEWS
  • Calendar
    • EVENTS 2024-25
  • ABOUT US
    • HOW TO FIND US
    • HOW TO JOIN
    • WAUGH'S BIRTHDAY SUPPER
    • COMMITTEE
    • OUR CONSTITUTION
    • SPEAKER SERVICES
    • CONTACT US
  • COMPETITIONS
    • 2023-24 Trophy Winners >
      • Richard Holland Cup Winning Entry
      • Harry Craven Cup Winning Entry
      • President's Cup Winning Entry
      • T' Kissin' Shuttle Winning Entry
    • 2022 - 23 Trophy Winners
    • 2022 - 23 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 - 21 Trophy Winners
    • 2020 - 21 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 - 21 Winning Entries blank >
      • ODE TO A COTTON REEL - Sally James
      • ABSENT FRIENDS - NODDLE YED'S TALE - Betty Lightfoot
      • PiICKING COAL WITH DAD - Sally James
      • NIGHT SHIFT - Neville Southern
      • Frank Gibson's entry not published
    • 2019 Winning Entries >
      • A LUVIN’ ‘USBANT’S TREAT - Ron Williams
      • MOLLIE'S MEANDERINGS - Sally James
      • BLOOD BROTHERS - Sally James
      • THE OLD MILL STREAM - Sally James
      • Frank Gibson's entry not published
  • Edwin Waugh
    • Brief Biography
    • Waugh's Poems >
      • Poems and Songs Vol 1 1889
      • Posies From a Country Garden
      • More Poems and Songs - Full Length Book
      • Miscellany
    • Waugh's letters to his publisher
    • Other Waugh's letters
  • Waugh's Well
    • Notice Board Replacement
    • WAUGH'S WELL WALK
    • Videos and Gallery - 2021 Walk
    • Gallery - 2018 Walk
    • Gallery - 2017 Walk
    • Early Waugh's Well Photos
  • OUTSIDE EVENTS
    • FOLK LIKE US EVENT
    • 2018 Bolton Station Promotion >
      • Gallery - Bolton Station Stall
      • Video - Sid Calderbank with his Bones
      • Video - Come Whoam to thi' Childer an' Me
    • 2017 Nov 24 Edwin Waugh Tribute Night >
      • Edwin Waugh Tribute Night - Video of the whole performance
      • Videos of the Individual Songs from the evening >
        • Lift On The Way
        • Com Whoam t' thi' Childer and Me
        • Bide On
        • When The Sun Goes Down
    • 2017 National Dialect Festival >
      • Video - Sid Calderbank recites poem
  • SALES

Events Calendar
​2024 – 2025

2024

October 8th
PRESIDENT’S NEET 
​
June Schofield
Picture
​"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
Picture
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

Picture
On  this evening, members are invited to present their favourite dialect item with a Christmas theme, be it a poem, story or song.
​​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

Tuesday ​​January 14th
The Whit'o'th Doctors
​Presented by
Brian Furness
​
Picture


​

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 11
th

"Growing old gracefully in song and rhyme" 
​Val Fielding
Picture
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
​ANNUAL SUPPERING DO
​
Tuesday M
arch 11th
Annual Suppering-Do
​Edwin Waugh’s Birthday Celebration
and Trophy Presentation Evening

​More details of
​the supper here.
Picture

​Trophies Presented by
Stewart Chadwick​


​​In the Chair

Stewart Chadwick

​
Waugh Reading
Tom Byrne

Tuesday April 8th
7:00pm 
Annual General Meeting

​7:30pm   approx
Edwin Waugh - "The Lancashire Burns"
Sid Calderbank
Picture
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
Dave Wood

​
Waugh Reading
Graham Barnes
Tuesday May 13th
"Besom Ben and other Lancashire Folk Tales”
Alison Cooper 
Picture

​​In the Chair
Alyson Bralsford

​
Waugh Reading
Jim Saville
Tuesday June 13th
"Lancashire Lady Writers' Neet"

​
Picture
Poems from Annie Campbell, Edith Ralph and other 'Owdhammers'
​In the Chair
Marylin Moore

​
Waugh Reading
Alyson Brailsford

Summer Event

T.B.C.
  • HOME
  • LATEST NEWS
  • Calendar
    • EVENTS 2024-25
  • ABOUT US
    • HOW TO FIND US
    • HOW TO JOIN
    • WAUGH'S BIRTHDAY SUPPER
    • COMMITTEE
    • OUR CONSTITUTION
    • SPEAKER SERVICES
    • CONTACT US
  • COMPETITIONS
    • 2023-24 Trophy Winners >
      • Richard Holland Cup Winning Entry
      • Harry Craven Cup Winning Entry
      • President's Cup Winning Entry
      • T' Kissin' Shuttle Winning Entry
    • 2022 - 23 Trophy Winners
    • 2022 - 23 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 - 21 Trophy Winners
    • 2020 - 21 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 - 21 Winning Entries blank >
      • ODE TO A COTTON REEL - Sally James
      • ABSENT FRIENDS - NODDLE YED'S TALE - Betty Lightfoot
      • PiICKING COAL WITH DAD - Sally James
      • NIGHT SHIFT - Neville Southern
      • Frank Gibson's entry not published
    • 2019 Winning Entries >
      • A LUVIN’ ‘USBANT’S TREAT - Ron Williams
      • MOLLIE'S MEANDERINGS - Sally James
      • BLOOD BROTHERS - Sally James
      • THE OLD MILL STREAM - Sally James
      • Frank Gibson's entry not published
  • Edwin Waugh
    • Brief Biography
    • Waugh's Poems >
      • Poems and Songs Vol 1 1889
      • Posies From a Country Garden
      • More Poems and Songs - Full Length Book
      • Miscellany
    • Waugh's letters to his publisher
    • Other Waugh's letters
  • Waugh's Well
    • Notice Board Replacement
    • WAUGH'S WELL WALK
    • Videos and Gallery - 2021 Walk
    • Gallery - 2018 Walk
    • Gallery - 2017 Walk
    • Early Waugh's Well Photos
  • OUTSIDE EVENTS
    • FOLK LIKE US EVENT
    • 2018 Bolton Station Promotion >
      • Gallery - Bolton Station Stall
      • Video - Sid Calderbank with his Bones
      • Video - Come Whoam to thi' Childer an' Me
    • 2017 Nov 24 Edwin Waugh Tribute Night >
      • Edwin Waugh Tribute Night - Video of the whole performance
      • Videos of the Individual Songs from the evening >
        • Lift On The Way
        • Com Whoam t' thi' Childer and Me
        • Bide On
        • When The Sun Goes Down
    • 2017 National Dialect Festival >
      • Video - Sid Calderbank recites poem
  • SALES