Event: Edwin Waugh Dialect Society

Tuesday 08 March 2022
7.30pm start - 9pm

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

DETAILS:

Tonight's session is 'Life and Times of Randal Mundy' presented by Sid Calderbank.

Randal Mundy BA. BSc was born in Stalybridge in 1862. He was a dialect poet and educationalist, geologist, biologist and linguist who embarked on a world tour in 1912. He wrote the Prata Pie song!

In the Chair: Elaine Wedge

Waugh Item: Geoff Proctor

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 2022 calendar.

01706 826227

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