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Next Luncheon
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Monday 16th March 2020 1309th
Luncheon
The 97th Annual General Meeting of the Club will be held at 11-45am on Monday 16th March at The Holiday Inn, Aytoun St, Manchester, prior to the talk and lunch arranged for that date. The Agenda for the meeting is set out below. GWEN M CROSSLEY Honorary Secretary
Sid Calderbank -
"The Lancashire Cotton Famine - How we survived the American Civil War (1861-65)
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The story of what happens when an industry employing some 500,000 people and
concentrated mostly in just one county, suddenly finds its supply of raw
material has stopped and there is nothing anyone in England can do about
it. The
story of the deprivation, starvation and eventual recovery is told in the
songs, poems and newspaper reports of the time.
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About our Speaker :-
I have
been collecting and researching the songs, stories and poems of old
Lancashire for over 40 years, interpreting them for modern day audiences and
performing them at folk, arts and literary festivals anywhere from Aberdeen
to Dartmoor! Along the way I have developed a range of talks for our local
social and historical societies as these songs are our history - our
heritage. They are the words of cotton workers, of coal miners and
quarrymen, of housewives and mothers – and they represent their story,
written in their own language and they were as real to them as were the
looms and shovels that they worked with. Over the years I have become active
in every dialect society in the County – I am Vice President of the Edwin
Waugh Dialect Society, Chairman of The Lancashire Society and President of
the Lancashire Authors’ Association. Since 2008 I have appeared regularly on
BBC TV and radio, speaking on the Lancashire Dialect. Flog It!; Countryfile;
Michael Portillo’s Railway Journeys; Radio 4’s “Tongue and the Talk”, the
Antiques Road Trip, and I once went all the way to London to say 12 words to
Shirley Bassey on The One Show! |
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Closing date for applications for this luncheon is Friday 6th March 2020 |
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Menu
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Menu Supreme of Chicken, .Fondant Potato, Petit Pois ala Francaise. .. Pan Fried Seabream, .Fennel,Kale and Shallot with a Fresh Tomato Sauce. ..
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.Sticky Toffee Pudding, Toffee Sauce & Vanilla Ice Cream alternatives .Lemon Tart, Meringue Chantilly. or Fresh Fruit Salad or Ice Cream ~~~~
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