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.

Home and Family Life - Daily Life Food and Clothes

Audio
Description
Player
Description
Player
Carole Dar Tripe DAR Deb Sowerby Eating at Nans PA
Eric Gill Home made rope slippers CH Irene Owen Clothes worn LE
Jennifer Rothwell Hair Plait story CH Joan Wilson Jumble sale Jumpers PA
Keith Dalton Bottling the pears CR Kenneth Baldwin Wearing Clogs AN
Marg David Young DY Clogs not worn by him PA Margaret Ad Postwar ration food AD
Martin Bradley Heinz tins No Labels WI Rita Holden Cheap drinks from Spanish BL
Rita Holden Toffee Ration and Cinema BL Rose Winstanley Sandals and Clogs WI
Ruth Burs Clogs for 2 and 6 BU Ruth Burs Shoddy cakes like Chorleys BU
Susan Draper Shopping to Door RU