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Title
Dialect Writers' Memorial
Medium
bronze & stone
Measurements
H 450 x W 126 x D 126 cm
Accession number
OL16_PRJ_S008
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Memorial Committee
Work type
Obelisk
Owner
Rochdale Borough Council
Custodian
Rochdale Borough Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
27th October 1900
Access
time restrictions apply
Inscription description
front: BORN ROCHDALE 27TH JANY 1817 / EDWIN WAUGH / DIED NEW BRIGHTON 30TH APRIL 1890 / “COME WHOAM TO THI CHILDER AN ME." / 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.; right-hand side: BORN ROCHDALE 21ST JUNE 1811 / OLIVER ORMEROD / DIED ROCHDALE 1ST NOVEMBER 1879 / “AW SED AW'M O RACHDE FELLEY / MON UN WE'RE METERLY FAUSE THEERE / AWLL WARRUNT TE." / “OLIS LET O MON DOO THAT UTS REETE / UN E'S SARTIN SHURE FUR TO KOOME / EAWT TH BEST UT LAST OV O."; rear: BORN CARLOW IRELAND 10TH MAY1831 / MARGARET REBECCA LAHEE / DIED ROCHDALE 14TH JUNE 1895 / “WHEN WE LAY DEAUN LIFE'S SHUTTLE AN / STON BEFORE TH GREYT JUDGE, HE'LL / WONT TO KNOW WHAT SOOAT OF A PIECE / WE'N WOVEN, AN HOW MANY FLOATS THERE'S / IN IT, HE WINNOT CARE ABEAWT EAWR / HEE SEAUNDIN' NAMES AN WORLDLY / POSSESSIONS. HE'LL AX US HOW WE GEET / EM AN WHAT WE DID WI' EM."; left-hand side: BORN MILNROW 22ND JANY 1857 / JOHN TRAFFORD CLEGG / DIED BOURNEMOUTH 18TH MARCH 1895 / “SAY NOWT AGAIN FOLK BEHIND THEIR / BACKS, SUP NOWT STHRONGER NOR WOM / BREWED, AN NOANE TOO MICH O THAT / KEEP LOW THOUGHTS EAUT THI MIND / BI FILLING IT WI THINGS BRODE AN HEE / FESTIN THI E'EN ON TH SKY ITS AS YEZZY / TO LOOK UP AS DEAWN, AN IT MAKES / A VAST DIFFERENCE IN A MON.”