On this page you can experience dialect speakers reading Lancashire literature by not only hearing the dialect but seeing the source poem as well. This will be particularly beneficial to those unused to the sight and sound of the County's dialect and we hope will encourage people to start 'having a go' themselves once familiarity is achieved.

First School - First School Discipline

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Description
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Description
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Alan Rylance Clip round ear BU Christine Reddington Notre Dame ST
Doreen Thomas Primary School WI Doreen Thomas Spitting and Cane WI
Dorothy Fisher Segregate boys girls CH Elsie Ball Punishment for poem WI
Geoff Monk Caned so Ran away PA Jack Smith Knuckles rapped CH
Maggie Bracegirdle Caning regime Not Now BU Maggie Bracegirdle L Hand Smack BU
Marg Bbn Caned for giggling BL Margaret Ladner Rivington school punishment HC
Pamela Sloane Strict Convents LEY Paul Mackenzie Catechism punishment BU
Rita Holden BoysTricks Cockroach in Glasses BL