Rochdale has a rich heritage of authors who have written in Lancashire Dialect or about Rochdale life. John Collier, who wrote as "Tim Bobbin," is said to have started the tradition locally and the tradition continues today with organisations such as the Edwin Waugh Dialect Society and local writers who include: Mark Hodkinson, Trevor Hoyle and Nicholas Blincoe.
Touchstones, Rochdale is celebrating our literary heritage with the exhibition "History, Mystery and Myth: Local stories and storytelling," which runs until September 2010.
Link4Life is also running a series of creative writing workshops, drawing inspiration from material in the collections at Touchstones, Rochdale.
Link4Life: Literary Tradition - including links to the exhibition and related workshops
Lancashire writing on the Web Catalogue - Lancashire dialect writing and local authors
The Edwin Waugh Dialect Society
Some local dialect authors
- Tim Bobbin - "the Lancashire Hogarth."
- John Trafford Clegg - "Th'owd Weighver."
- Oliver Ormerod .
- Edwin Waugh
Contact
Touchstones Rochdale
The Esplanade
Rochdale OL16 1AQ
Telephone: 01706 924492
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