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Lancashire Characters and Places

Gelesen von Phil Benson

(4,667 Sterne; 3 Bewertungen)

An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers (1889) and the History of the Forest of Rossendale (1893). (Summary by Phil Benson) (4 hr 20 min)

Chapters

01 - John Critchley Prince

29:19

Read by Phil Benson

02 - The last of the ale-tasters

16:22

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03 - Edwin Waugh

21:29

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04 - The Gull Moss

11:53

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05 - Lancashire factory doffers

11:15

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06 - James Leach the Lancashire composer

24:47

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07 - Rossendale past and present

31:43

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08 - The Lakes of Dean

9:53

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09 - Afield with the geologists

16:26

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10 - Old John's Sunday dinner

16:31

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11 - An ambrosial noon

19:54

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12 - The Irwell

14:28

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13 - Rough Lee

6:30

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14 - Some Lancashire characters and incidents

29:52

Read by Phil Benson

Bewertungen

good reading for lovers of English history. reader is tops

(4 Sterne)