Edwin Waugh Dialect Society

Tuesday 09 April 2024
7.30pm start - 9pm

St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church
Entwistle Road
Rochdale
OL16 2HZ

Details:

AGM at 7pm

Tonight's session is "A Neet wi' Sam Fitton o' Shay". ​Presented by Alyson Brailsford.

Sam Fitton originally worked in the local cotton mills but he went on to make a living as a skilled illustrator & cartoonist, poet, dialect writer and performer. 

A number of his verses - 'Eawr Sarah's Getten a Chap' and 'My Owd Case Clock' - became standards in the dialect repertoire.

​Fitton was also a marvellous mimic and comic entertainer. He was above all a Lancashire man with a Lancashire view of the world, or as one of his friends described him, 'a gradely man with a gradely sense of humour'.

In the Chair: John Pye

Edwin Waugh Dialect Society meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month (previously Wednesday) from October to June, commencing at 7.30pm at St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church, Rochdale (between Rochdale Leisure Centre and Aldi). There is free onsite parking.

Annual subscription is £5, but voluntary donations at each meeting help defray the cost of the room hire. Your first meeting is free.

Formed in 1938 by a group of Lancashire Dialect enthusiasts, the objects of the society are the maintaining and increasing of interest in Lancashire.

At the meetings, members are entertained by a speaker or a performer.

Visit the link below for the full 2024 calendar.

01706 826227

https://www.edwinwaughdialectsociety.com/events-calendar.html

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