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.

Working life

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Alf Cowburn Jane Makes Lancs Cheese PR George Critchley Milk Kits CH
Harry Forrest Grow Peas Birds eye MA Harry Wilkinson Market share problems LA
Irene Valentine Horwich mills AD Marg Bbn Mum school then mill day BL
Audrey Rigby Dad Accident 2 HI Karl Shacklady Mine rescue story SH
Alan Rylance Town gas Natural gas BU George Critchley Engineer Fitter loses job CH
Barrie Nowell Railway Pay tin BL Irene Valentine Dad pulling levers AD