Edwin Waugh
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Edwin Waugh
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 22 Sep 2016
One side of the Lancashire Dialect Writers Memorial Image in Broadfield Park Image features Edwin Waugh: BORN ROCHDALE EDWIN WAUGH DIED NEW BRIGHTON 27TH JANY 1817 "COME WHOAM TO THI CHILDER AN ME."30TH APRIL 1890 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF FOUR ROCHDALE WRITERS OF THE LANCASHIRE DIALECT WHO HAVE PRESERVED FOR OUR CHILDREN IN VERSE AND PROSE THAT WILL NOT DIE, THE STRENGTH AND TENDERNESS, THE GRAVITY AND HUMOURS OF THE FOLK OF OUR DAY, IN THE TONGUE AND TALK OF THE PEOPLE. THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED A.D. 1900. Lower down on this side is inscribed: 1908 HARVEY KERSHAW M.B.E. 1986 "A MON WI' T' COMMON TOUCH"
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Image Location
Latitude
53.614699
Longitude
-2.161552