SPEYKING PROPER - IN LANCASHIRE DIALECT

See link below

http://www.nyt.co.uk/lankytalk.htm

There is no Lanky definite article. Merely substitute a small half-strangled ... Master this and you have mastered the first basic rule of speaking Lanky. ...

Circular Walk from Hurst Green to Longridge Fell

One of my favourite places to go walking is around the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley.

Hurst Green is a small village in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England, connected in its history to the Jesuit school, Stonyhurst College. The village is a 20 minute drive from Longridge and a 15 minute drive away from Clitheroe, and is close to the River Ribble, near its junction with the River Hodder.


Here are a selection of photographs taken on a circular walk starting at Hurst Green up to Longridge Fell and back via the River Hodder.

Longridge Fell

Country Lane nr Hurst Green

River Hodder

Pendle Hill from Longridge Fell

Woodland close to Hurst Green

The cross in the woods, nr Hurst Green

Let me introduce you to Tia, my walking companion, looking rather unhappy after a slip and fall into the river

I AM BACK

Its been a while since I started my blog. It never really got off the ground with me being so busy with other projects. Now I am reviewing and starting to use my blog as I fully intended to when I started some years back, as a diary for the images taken on my travels around Lancashire. There will be some postings of images from elsewhere on my travels too.

Starting with this image taken recently on a walk in the Wigan area.

Many more to follow and some historical items to post too from walks that I never got to post.

Please bear with me whilst I find my way and hopefully people will get as much enjoyment from viewing my images I have had taking them.

Many Thanks and Kind regards

A Daisy Hill ...   "Daisy"

Ecky-Thump (pronounced ehk-ee thoooomp) is an ancient and traditional martial art originating from Lancaster, Lancashire in Northern England. Similar but superior to Kung Fu in many respects, it utilizes long, fierce-looking Black Puddings in place of more inferior Eastern weaponry. Practitioners of the martial art are easily distinguished through their ritualistic flat caps and accompanying whippets.

uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ecky_thump

Lancashire Cheese is one of Britain´s great regional foods.

It is a delicious product with a long and proud history that is hand made by 7 skilled cheese makers all situated in and around the Forest of Bowland in the heart of rural Lancashire.

Chances are, you have heard of Lancashire Cheese and may even have fond memories of it from your childhood. However, if you are like many others you haven’t tried it for sometime and couldn’t really say why it is different from other British cheeses.

The Lancashire cheese makers hope this is soon about to change and you will be convinced that Lancashire Cheese is a wonderful and delicious regional food that should be celebrated and enjoyed.


www.lancashirecheese.com

Looks more like the everglades than a pond in the corner of a field near Atherton.

Cotton town tells the story of a manufacturing process that started in isolated cottages on the wind and rain swept West Pennines and ended with derelict weaving sheds and the demolition of tall, soot blackened mill chimneys. In between was the boom time, when Cotton was King and Blackburn was the weaving capital of the world, when millionaire magnates lived in country mansions and the workers made the best of it in overcrowded, uncomfortable, unsanitary conditions.

It's a journey back in time, made possible by means of maps, manuscripts, photos, books, pamphlets and posters, many thousands of which have been copied scanned and abstracted especially for the Cottontown site. It's a journey back in time in more ways than one...



www.cottontown.org

Another picture taken on one recent walk along the old railways lines near Wigan

Some pictures taken on a recent walk on an old railway line near Wigan

The website of the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside.

http://www.lancswt.org.uk/