Homeward Bound.

[davidedric]

Great image, John, I didn't have took twice to know in what part of the world it was taken. Nothing to add to the processing comments.

It immediately put me in mind of Edwin Waugh's poem "Todlin' Whoam", though the mood is a little different https://allpoetry.com/Todlin'-Whoam
(also put to music by the Oldham Tinkers)

Dave

[John 2]

Thanks Dave. Ive lived in Lancashire for 55 years and the some of the dialect still defeats me. Googled Oldham Tinkers and that particular bit of poetry but they don't seem to have anything on line.

[davidedric]

Hi John, my father could speak dialect, and his father was a dialect entertainer, so I manage OK.

It took me a while to find it too. It's listed on Spotify, but with the wrong album attribution.

It's actually on "Owdham Edge", track 2 side 2, which is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh9qZa1NO9A&t=1079s

However, it's listed as by Larry Kearns, who, with his brother Gerry and John Howarth, made up the Oldham Tinkers!

Back in the late sixties, there was a folk revival in Lancashire, led by Harry Boardman, and many of these nineteenth century poems were set to music. We used to go to his folk club.

Cheers, Dave

[royent]

I spoke with a strong Lancashire dialect until I left school. ( some of the teachers did too ) When I started work I had to lose it. It still comes back at times.
Roy