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      • ODE TO A COTTON REEL - Sally James
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      • 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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    • Videos and Gallery - 2021 Walk
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  • 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
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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           lancashire.sid@hotmail.com

                                                              Sally  Williams                           01706  826 227           tynewydd3@msn.com
                                                              
       (Sally writes under the name of Sally James)

                                                              The Tin Pot Poets                  01706  826227             tynewydd3@msn.com

                                                              Alyson Brailsford                   07773 710 325             alyson.brailsford@gmail.com

                                                              Betty Lightfoot                        0161 794 2387             mandblightfoot@hotmail.co.uk

                                                              Robin Parker                             07977 481 766             robinparker@hotmail.co.uk
                   
                                                               Michael Higgins                         0161 626 4007          wickentree@aol.com 

                                                               Dr. Paul Salveson                    07795 008 691           paul.salveson@myphone.coop



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!

Sally James
Sally writes in both Standard English and Lancashire Dialect and is available to give readings of both genres if required.
She has an M.A. in Creative writing from Bolton University write in both standard English and Lancashire dialect and has had poetry and short stories published in both genres in small press magazines, anthologies, the Internet and read on local radio.  She also writes poetry for children.  She has four pamphlets of poetry published: 
  • "Deawn Earw Alley"
  • "Silhouettes " published by Tiresias Press in 2000. 
  • "Coal dust in their veins" published by Thynks publications 2014
  •  "The Wasamaroo and other poems" published by Scott Martin Publications 2018. 
Sally won a poetry competition for the other Over-fifties Poetry on the Platform in 2020.  She also won the Pomfret Cup  for rhyming verse Lancashire authors 2021. Recent publications 2021 with Worktown Words and Dreight publications.  Her latest pamphlet of poems, "Coal Dust and Confetti"  in Standard English is about the harsh realities of life in the Lancashire Coalfields.
She write under her previous married name of Sally James and is in the process of compiling a collection of short stories and dialect poetry for possible publication.

The Tin Pot Poets
Ron and Sally Williams founded the Tin Pot Poets in 2014 .  Both are long standing members of the Edwin Waugh Dialect Society.  They both write in humorous dialect verse but can be serious or topical if desired.  They are available to give performances when required and have recently made a CD, the profits from which are going to the Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team.

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

Betty Lightfoot
Betty performs  her own poems and monologues, mainly  childhood and  past and present  family memories.  

Robin Parker
Robin's talk is entitled 'From East End to Edenfield; history of the Lancashire comedy monologue'

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
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  • ABOUT US
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    • 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
  • 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