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      • 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
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    • Brief Biography
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      • Poems and Songs Vol 1 1889
      • Posies From a Country Garden
      • More Poems and Songs - Full Length Book
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    • WAUGH'S WELL WALK
    • Videos and Gallery - 2021 Walk
    • Gallery - 2018 Walk
    • Gallery - 2017 Walk
    • Early Waugh's Well Photos
  • OUTSIDE EVENTS
    • 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

Society Sales - Books

The Society has a collection of old dialect books for sale, some in good condition, some not so.
From time to time we receive donations and presently have several books in our library.
                              
Please contact Alyson Brailsford to purchase or to enquire 
​                                    alyson.brailsford@gmail.com     07773 710 325                      
                                                                         
 EDWIN WAUGH BOOKS
​

                                    BROWN HARDBACKS
  
                                    Tufts of Heather...………………………………………………..£4
                                                                      
                                   BLUE HARDBACKS

                                      Besom Ben Stories...………………………….………………..£4
                                      Poems and Songs...………………………………………...……£6
                                      Chimney Corner...……………………………………………….£4
                                      Chimney Corner (poor condition)………  ……………..£2

                                      Tufts of Heather..1.…………………….……………….………£4   
                                      Tufts of Heather  2...……………………..…………………….£4      
                                      Rambles in the Lake Country...………..…………… ……£4
                                      Lancashire Sketches...………….……………… ……   ……..£4      
                                                                                                  
 BOOKS BY OTHER AUTHORS
​
Baynam's Elocution
Beckside Lights
Best of Yorkshire Humour 
Lancashire - 1939 -1945 ~Working For Victory 
Lancashire Humour and Pathos
Lancashire Legends
Lanky Twan
Living Lancashire 
Monologues & Poems
Now't so Queer as Folk
Queer Folk - a comicality of Yorkshire characters
Size of the People
Sketches and Rhymes in Rochdale Dialect
The Changing Face of Rossendale
The Dalesman - Yorkshire Album - 1976 
The Funny Side of Life
The Second Bacup Miscellany
​by George Baynam 
by John Ackworth 
 
by Ron Freethy
by L Saunders
by Kathleen Eyre
by Peter Wright
by Bob Dobson & Eric Topping
by William Bates
by Derek Boothroyd 
by Maurice Colbeck
 
by Trafford Clegg
by Ken Whitehead
 
by Benita Moore
 
​£3
£2
£2
£3
£3
£2
£2
£2
£1
£2
£2
£4
£8

£2
£2
£3
 ALL BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE ARE IN GOOD OR REASONABLE CONDITION,
 BEARING IN MIND THAT SOME ARE OVER 100 YEARS OLD!
Also a 'new' book                                                                           
                                      Sneck, Bants and Jannock Hearts                                                by Lowell Dobbs
                                      was £16-99 - now reduced to only £6-99                              SAVE £10 per copy
  • HOME
  • LATEST NEWS
  • Calendar
    • EVENTS 2022-23
    • EVENTS 2023-24
  • ABOUT US
    • HOW TO FIND US
    • HOW TO JOIN
    • WAUGH'S BIRTHDAY SUPPER
    • COMMITTEE
    • OUR CONSTITUTION
    • SPEAKER SERVICES
    • CONTACT US
  • COMPETITIONS
    • 2022 Trophy Winners
    • 2022 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 Trophy Winners
    • 2020 Winners' Photo Gallery
    • 2020 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 Well
    • WAUGH'S WELL WALK
    • Videos and Gallery - 2021 Walk
    • Gallery - 2018 Walk
    • Gallery - 2017 Walk
    • Early Waugh's Well Photos
  • OUTSIDE EVENTS
    • 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