Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Poetry Index

Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, an index to authors, first lines and titles of Lancashire poetry in books held within libraries in Lancashire, including the Lancashire Authors’ Association collection. The index provides details of the book in which a particular poem may be found and also a link through to the library catalogue to give the locations of the required volume.

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ID Number

86280

Title

Beloved Hills

First Line

Beloved hills we roamed from childhood hours

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

1

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86281

Title

Names Like Bells

First Line

Uppermill, Greenfield, Delph, Dobcross

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

3

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86282

Title

Pennine Magic

First Line

Bats in the belfry

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

4

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86283

Title

Swans at Uppermill

First Line

You sailed upon the millpond proud as ships

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

5

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86284

Title

Snowfall

First Line

Quietly falls the snow

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

6

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86285

Title

Somebody Gave Peter

First Line

Somebody gave Peter a little glass ball

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

7

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86286

Title

George Shaw

First Line

George Shaw was a gentleman who lived at St. Chad's

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86287

Title

Grey Lady

First Line

Don't take any notice!

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

9

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86288

Title

Janes Bird

First Line

A little girl of long ago

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

10

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86289

Title

St.Chad

First Line

Before the Saxon herdsmen on the banks of the Tame

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

11

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86290

Title

Talking

First Line

Little lambs and daffodils dancing in the fields

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

12

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86291

Title

Once There Was Music

First Line

Once there was music here

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

13

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86292

Title

Old Saddleworth Names

First Line

Buckley and Whitehead, Lees and Schofield

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

14

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86293

Title

After a Visit To Haworth

First Line

The fabled street, the uphill street of dreams

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

15

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86294

Title

Eld or Geld?

First Line

Why was Runninghill so named

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

16

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86295

Title

Riders

First Line

The racecourse is gone and the riders too

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

17

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86296

Title

In This Wild Countryside

First Line

In this wild countryside one sometimes dreams

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

18

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86297

Title

The Farm Cart

First Line

There is an old farm cart

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

19

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86298

Title

Holy Trinity, Dobcross

First Line

A poet of our times, one John Betjeman

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

20

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86299

Title

Dobcross Dob

First Line

Do you know the crossroads

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

21

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86300

Title

Thames and Tame

First Line

Southern Thames and Northern Tame

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

22

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86301

Title

Packhorse Bridges

First Line

If all the little bridges high upon the moor

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

23

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86302

Title

Lee Cross

First Line

As I walked by Lee Cross

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

24

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86303

Title

Marsh Marigolds

First Line

In Greenfield as the people know

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

25

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86304

Title

War Memorial

First Line

They wrote our names upon a stone

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

26

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86305

Title

Drought 1959

First Line

One afternoon, the summer near its end

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

27

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86306

Title

James Platt

First Line

It was so long ago

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

28

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86307

Title

A Nice Afternoon

First Line

Fancy meeting you up here - and how are you to-day?

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

29

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86308

Title

Jeptha

First Line

Mighty Man of Valour

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

30

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86309

Title

Mountain Ash

First Line

Bright brown hare so full of grace

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

31

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86310

Title

A Long Way Out

First Line

Well, they always say the same, "You are a long way out!"

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

32

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86311

Title

Old House

First Line

We never own an old house

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

33

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86312

Title

The Well

First Line

When they made the well that Monday, there was so much ado

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

34

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86313

Title

House Hunting

First Line

It may be rather rudery

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

35

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86314

Title

Pule Hill

First Line

Once there were Volunteers

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

36

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86315

Title

Ammon Wrigley

First Line

There was a boy at Castleshaw

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

37

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86316

Title

Bleakhey Nook

First Line

Bleakhey Nook is quiet now

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

38

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86317

Title

The Wheel

First Line

I'd like to talk to thosewho heard of other days

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

39

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86318

Title

When Robert was a Young Man

First Line

When Robert was a young man, he worked on the canal

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

40

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86319

Title

Old Mill

First Line

Old mill in the valley, derelict

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

41

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86320

Title

Denshaw

First Line

Once there was an Old Cross

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

42

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86321

Title

Highwayman

First Line

Only the old tavern that faces Staley Street

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

43

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86322

Title

The Black Lad

First Line

Riding Riding Riding high

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

44

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86323

Title

History

First Line

There was a man, John

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

45

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86324

Title

Not For Me

First Line

Not for me a cruising ship, all "matched luggage"

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

46

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86325

Title

Remembrance

First Line

I sometimes think of how we went that day

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

47

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86326

Title

Whitsuntide

First Line

The past lives again

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

48

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86327

Title

The Stile

First Line

I had walked for a mile

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

49

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86328

Title

Indian Head

First Line

Wings against the hillside that morning in the past

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

50

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86329

Title

I like a Village Shop

First Line

I like a little village shop

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

51

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86330

Title

The Rooks

First Line

They came to shoot the rooks down

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

52

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86331

Title

Hills of Home

First Line

Alphin and Alderman

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

53

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

86332

Title

Yorkshire Street

First Line

Oldham is a busy town

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Rhyming Through Saddleworth

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1960

Page Number

54

Control Number

M0012315LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87884

Title

First Line

In clouded skies the lark still soars and sings

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

1

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87885

Title

When I was small

First Line

When I was small the German Bands had gone

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

10

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87985

Title

No Ice Cream Chimes

First Line

No ice cream chimes! But ice cream carts came round

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

13

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87986

Title

Beyond familiar places

First Line

Beyond familiar places lay The Town

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

14

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87987

Title

Sally go round the sun

First Line

Sally go round the sun - the runic spell

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

15

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87988

Title

At four or five o'clock

First Line

At four or five o'clock - no later hour

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

16

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87989

Title

What dreams of fabled splendour

First Line

What dreams of fabled splendour in the names

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

17

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87990

Title

The streets round Rochdale Road

First Line

The streets round Rochdale Road, where I was born

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

18

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87991

Title

Unaltered yet the streets

First Line

Unaltered yet the streets my childhood knew

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

19

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87992

Title

High Days and Holidays in summertime

First Line

High days and holidays in summertime

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

20

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87993

Title

Holidays By the Sea! Those Blissful Days

First Line

Holidays by the sea! Those blissful days

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

21

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87994

Title

The Town That Throbbed With Engines Through The Day

First Line

The town that throbbed with engines through the day

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

22

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87995

Title

An Aunt and Grandmother Lived Near The Park

First Line

An Aunt and Grandmother lived near the park

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

23

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87996

Title

I Learnt To Read Before I Went To School

First Line

I learnt to read before I went to school

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

24

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87997

Title

Christmas was Christmas then - so long to wait

First Line

Christmas was Christmas then - so long to wait

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

25

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes

 

ID Number

87998

Title

The books of childhood! Christmas Annuals

First Line

The books of childhood! Christmas Annuals

Poet

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Book Title

Lark in Smoke

Author of Book

WINTERBOTTOM, Vera

Publication Date

1963

Page Number

26

Control Number

M0012318LC (Check the catalogue)

Notes