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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Owd Benny stepped eawt of a battered pit cage

Owd Bill were t' keenest fisherman as ever cast a line

Owd Billy sits on t'bollard

Owd Blossom wor a gallowa'

Owd Bumper's frame wur seldom reet

Owd Chitty wer a merry bird, his voice wer awlus ringin'

Owd Clinker wer a teet-neaved chap

Owd Dan had a fiddle 'at hung up o'th'wo'

Owd Darby's a bit uv a sharp in his way

Owd Doctor Dunn's a reet good sooart

Owd Enoch o' Dan's laid his pipe deawn o'th'hob

Owd Enoch o' Nabs wur a chap o' th' reight sooart

Owd Ephraim Woods he kept a shop

Owd Fiddlin' Bob un Clarnet Bill, un Sam wi' th'

Owd Fogey lives i' Turner's Fowd

Owd friend, aw geet thi note n' neet

Owd Fuddler's signed teetotal

Owd Grandad Bill as lives wi' me

Owd Isaac Bradshaw keeps a shop

Owd Jack o' Bob's bin flittin' an' he's come to live i th' fowt

Owd Jack o' th' Nook - a Yorkshire chap

Owd Jack's a singer, ov that there's no deawt

Owd Jem said t' me, laynin on 'is stick

Owd Jemmy's gooin' deawn broo fast

Owd Jeremy Gigg, a miller was he

Owd Jerry o'Tums led a bachelor life

Owd Jonas Lee were ceawered i' t' nook

Owd Joss Grundy wer a dacent chap

Owd Lankysheer's had yeps o' characters

Owd Lolly o' Jem's seet him deawn in his cheear

Owd Morris's shop wor a treasure

Owd Moxy wrowt hard for his morsil o' breead

Owd Ned o' Jooan's had often thowt

Owd Peter wer a gradely mon

Owd Peter's booath hearty an' hardy

Owd pigeon wur as droy a bird

Owd Pinder were a rackless foo

Owd Polyant a garden had

Owd Pratocake keeps t Buttercup

Owd Puddle keeps an alehouse ut back o' Dont's o' Ben's

Owd Robin o' Quifter's wur shaky an' thin

Owd Roddle wur tattert an' torn

Owd Sam, it wer plain, wer a master o' his trade

Owd sammy wer deein' twer plain to bisin

Owd Sarah wur a good un

Owd Simon at Windy Gap loved a good tune

Owd Solomon Grab wur a greedy soul, an' as selfish as mon could be

Owd Tummus had bin eawt one neet

Owd Winter gat notice to quit

Owdham is a bonny teawn

Owls fly around at night

Oxford city, by the Thames

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