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Special Summer Weekend Gathering
For more details of each event, please go to the end of the 2023-2024 events page
2024 August 3rd 11:00amWaugh's Well Walk to erect a new notice board at
Fo' Edge Farm to replace the dilpidated one. 
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2024 August 4th1:00pm
We first meet for lunch at The Regal Moon, Wetherspoons. 2:30pm Then visit to the dialect Writers' `memorial in Broadfield Park 
3:00pm
A conducted tour of Rochdale Town Hall. 
Join us for as many events as you have time to come
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2024 The Annual Waugh's Birthday Celebration 'Suppering Do'
This took place on Tuesday 12th March 2023
The meat & potato pies and the cheese & onion pies were were much enjoyed by everyone and apple pie and cream rounded off the evening meal nicely.
Cup Winners
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President's Cup
Harry Craven Cup 
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T' Kissin' Shuttle
Won by Linda Rowe for the best performance on the night with her critical poem "Still Lancashire!" defending the County of Lancashire vs Greater Manchester. She was ably accompanied on guitar by her daughter Caroline Williams. Richard Holland Cup
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Winning Entries
`All the winning entries can be found in the Competitions section:
2023 - 24 Trophy Winners
Most everybody else did a 'turn' and entertained us admirably
2023 - 24 Trophy Winners
Most everybody else did a 'turn' and entertained us admirably
Early Waugh's Well photo discovered of opening ceremony in 1866
More photos have been added to the Waugh's Well Galleries, one (likely) to be of the opening ceremony in 1866.
2023 Special Summer Gathering - A New Venture - Sun 6th August 2:30pm
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A new venture - poetry reading and song around the Dialect Writers' Memorial Obelisk in Broadfield Park, Rochdale at 2:30pm on Sunday 6th August.
An inscription you can find on the stone, by John Trafford Clegg, reads "It's as yezzy to look up as deawn, an it makes a vast difference in a mon." If weather and time permits, we will also walk over to St Chad's church where Tim Bobbin's grave lies as a follow up to our May meeting in which Alison Cooper gave a wonderful exposition of his life along with an in depth look at his "Blackbird "poem which was a critical view of the pious approach to Sunday activities in his time. If you wish to extend the day, please do come and join us for lunch at the Regal Moon, Wetherspoons, Rochdale at 1:00pm. |
2023 The Annual Waugh's Birthday Celebration 'Suppering Do' and Trophy Winners
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This took place on Tuesday 14th March 2023
The meat & potato pies and the cheese & onion pies were prepared by Anne Leggett Catering and were much enjoyed by everyone. Betty Lightfoot won the President's Cup. T' Kissin' Shuttle, for the best performance on the night, was jointly won by Tom Byrne for his song, 'The Four-Loom Weaver', and his partner, Aimee, for her clog dancing rendition, to the tune of "She's a Lassie from Lancashire" by Florrie Ford. Most everybody else did a 'turn' and entertained us admirably. |
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