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.

Leisure - Street Games

Audio
Description
Player
Description
Player
Alex Hodge BritBulldog Skilly games Alex Hodge TigTicky game
Barbara France Games Telling off Bentham Jones Thornton Can game HI
Bentham Jones Thornton Jackshine game HI Bentham Jones Thornton Rolly or Yoccy game HI
Christine Bishop Street games PE Elizabeth Robinson Games WI
George Fairhurst Skilly game WI George Owen Games list CH
Ian Hunter Play BritBulldog BU Jack Smith Chorley street games CH
Jim Sylvia Berkley Jim Games OR John Marg Ibbotson Her topwhip game BL
Johnson Hurst Worthington Games played HI Johnson Hurst Worthington Protect Bonfires HI
Lawrence Rigby Marbles and Prisoner games WI Lawrence Rigby Skilli Cannon Games WI
Leach Alan Lyon The Skilly Debate WI Margaret Arkwright Play around lamps WI
Martin Bradley Before Computers Clay Lobbing WI Paul Mackenzie Tonweight game BU
Paul Mackenzie Trollies out of prams BU Raymond Davies Throw a Can Game WI
Rita Holden Popping Gas Tar Bubble BL Rose Winstanley Throwcan 5bricks games WI
Ruth Burs WhipTop and Hoops BU Sheila Petherbridge AlleyO Tar bubbles BU