A Lancashire Mon - A dialect poem by Henry Yates 1841 - 1906
Aw wur bred amung th'hills, but aw'm Lanky,
There's no hauf an' hauf abeawt me;
It's down i' mi Gronny's owd Bible -
Booath sides of a long pedigree;
Aw've no need to simper an' sidle,
Nor finicky airs to put on;
Aw belong to th'owd Palatine Ceawnty
Aw'm a streytforrad, Lancashire mon !
Aw con croodle a tune they wer' singin'
When watchfires were blazin' on th'hills,
When Ceawnty men buckled ther belts on,
An' dames wore ther curls an' ther frills;
Aw've a kistful o' heirlooms i' th'kitchen;
An' aw've plushes o' o maks to don;
Aw'm conceited to think 'at aw'm English,
But aw'm preawd aw'm a Lancashire mon !
Aw've a bak'-stooane, a brack-breyd an' thible;
Aw've a breydflake for oatcakes an' o;
Ther's mi deetin' brush, too, an' mi drier,
An' a warmin' pon hung upo' th'wo;
Ther's mi loom-stocks an' o, up i' th'corner,
As aw'll keep till aw dee, if aw con,
For they're nicer than t'new-fangled fashion,
To an owd-fashioned, Lancashire mon !
We'll play nooan if owt's to be mended;
We're i' th'vanguard if owt's to be won;
We parcel all t'werk eawt for t'nations,
Ere t'world wakkens up to wod's done.
There may be a shire 'at is broader,
But there's nobbut one Ceawnty - just one,
'At King is a Duke on - that Lanky,
An' ther's nowt licks a Lancashire mon !
Farthingale Publications:... Is a hobby web site containing articles of local interest to Lancastrians, some favourite walking and cycling routes, selected words and poetry, and some writings of more general nature as well as the authors own picture gallery. Access is available via the homepage and menu at the head of the page.
Local Interest: A Cricket Calypso; A Lancashire Lullaby; Dust Upon God's Fair Earth; God's Choir; Isaac Watts 1674 - 1748; It's a Funny Life; John Byrom 1692 - 1793; John Lancaster Wigan MP; Jubilee Park Memorial, Ashton in Makerfield; Little Ships at War 1918; Mind Your Language; Not Much of a Warrior; Peveril of the Peak; Private Thomas Whitham VC; Richmond Hill Dairies; Scot Lane School Wigan; The Brocklebank Line; The Farewell; The Holy City Liverpool; The Lindsays of Haigh; The Nurburgring 1960; Thomas Aspinwall Miners Agent; Thomas Aspinwall Obituary; Thomas Linacre School Wigan; Upholland Telephone Exchange; Wigan Advertisements 1960; Wigan Old Bank 1792; Wigan Soldier Missing in Action.
Walking & Cycling: Abbey Lakes to Coppull Moor; A Lancashire Linear Walk; Blackrod or Bust; Chorley Ice Cream Walk; Cycle the Monsal Trail; Cycle the Sankey Valley; Douglas Valley Dawdle; Freshfield to Crosby; Haigh to Borsdane Wood; Irwell Valley Trail (Bury to Rawtenstall); Irwell Valley Trail (Bury to Salford); Moss Eccles Tarn; Three Counties Cycle Ride; Wigan Circular by Bike.
Words & Poetry: A Lancashire Mon; A Legend of Montrose; A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea; Aw've Turned me bit O' Garden O'er; Boat Song; Calm is the Sea; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Dover Harbour; Dust upon God's Fair Earth; God Bless these Poor Wimmen that's Childer; High Flight; Hymn Before Action; Jeff Unsworth's dialect poetry; King Cotton; Martin Chuzzlewit; Martyrs of the Arena; Mind Your Language; Only a Cranky Owd Foo'; On Th' Hills; Redgauntlet; Rogue Herries; The Antiquary; The Armada; The Bride of Lammermoor; Th' Coartin' Neet; The Cottage; The Darkling Thrush; The Donkey; The Fair Rosamond; The Fair Rosamond Comic; The Family Man; The Glory of the Garden; The Heart of Midlothian; The Pickwick Papers; The Rolling English Road; The Wanderer; The Wreck of the Hesperus; Toddlin' Whoam; Tommy; When Winds Breathe Soft; Wisdom.
Wallgate Chronicles: Adolphe Adam; A Tale of Two Cities; A Walk in the Hills; Barnaby Rudge; Bookcase; Cat Bells; Desert Island Discs; Eay Times Uv Changed; Fidelio; Frank Whittle and the Jet Engine; Fun with Trigonometry; Hard Times; Hugo Boss comes to Wigan; In the footsteps of the Manchester Rambler; Ivanhoe; Little Dorrit; Lohengrin; Nicholas Nickleby; Our Mutual Friend; Rob Roy; Romance on a Budget; Semele; Surprise at the Philharmonic; The Battle of Solferino; The Bohemian Girl; The Fair Maid of Perth; The Force of Destiny; The Getaway Car; The Marriage of Figaro; The Old Curiosity Shop; The Ravioli Room; The Spectroscope; The Switchroom Wigan; Travels in Time 1960; Travels in Time 2010.
The Langdales from Moss Eccles Tarn