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

SPEAKERS FOR YOUR MEETINGS

​The following people offer their services as speakers / entertainers to outside organisations. 

 Please contact the member directly to enquire about availability, terms, fees, etc.


                                                         Sid Calderbank                       01257  269 397           [email protected]

                                                              Alyson Brailsford                   07773 710 325             [email protected]om

                                                               Michael Higgins                         0161 626 4007          [email protected] 

                                                               Dr. Paul Salveson                    07795 008 691           [email protected]



The speakers / entertainers have provided the following information :-

Sid Calderbank
Sid's talks on the Lancashire Dialect are -
  • 'A Lancashire Garland'                                                  - The History of the Lancashire Dialect in Songs, Stories and Poems
  • ​'Love and Romance in Victorian Lancashire'   - Poetry and Prose from Lancashire's finest
  • 'The Lancashire Cotton Famine'                             - How we survived the American Civil War (1861 - 65)
  • 'Jone O'Grinfilt'                                                                  - Lancashire's most successful 19th century ballad
  • 'The Poets & Poetry of Victorian Blackburn'   - Just what it says!​

Alyson Brailsford
Her talk is 'Journey through life as seen through the pen of the Lancashire dialect writers'.

Michael Higgins
My occasional topics for the Royton History Society have included Morris Dancing and  Rushbearing, Rhymes and Songs of the Christian Year, Peterloo, and various specialised local history topics such as History of Royton, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 in Lancashire etc.  In 2013 (the 500th anniversary) I spoke to half a dozen societies on Lancashire and the Battle of Flodden - The Lancashire troops made up a third of the English army.  So, anything on Lancashire is my general interest.

As for the subject of Lancashire literature - dialect and standard - I have not actually put together anything as yet.  I  do recite and sing dialect and standard verse at poetry and music events and could produce something on medieval Lancashire verse up to today.
Alternatively, I could do an outline of more obscure dialect writers and their work.


Dr. Paul Salveson
Among his talks are -
  • 'Dialect literature of the Lancashire Cotton Industry'
  • 'Allen Clarke/Teddy Ashton... Lancashire's Romantic Radical'
  • 'Women dialect writers in Lancashire'

NB.   The  Society accepts no responsibility for any person named here or the quality and/or suitability of any performance by them.
  • 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