Edwin Waugh Dialect Society - The Whit'o'th Doctors ​Presented by Brian Furness

Tuesday 14 January 2025
7.30pm - 9pm

St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church
Entwistle Road
Rochdale
OL16 2HZ

Details:

Two hundred years ago members of the Taylor family, of Whitworth, a small hamlet near Rochdale were veterinary surgeons, or horse doctors, as the phrase was. Somehow, and this really is a mystery, they set their sights on humans and became the most celebrated doctors in the country. 

Find out more about them tonight. 

​​In the Chair
Stewart Chadwick

​Waugh Reading
Alyson Brailsford

Edwin Waugh Dialect Society meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month (previously Wednesday) from October to June, commencing at 7.30pm at St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church, Rochdale (between Rochdale Leisure Centre and Aldi). There is free onsite parking.

Annual subscription is £10, but voluntary donations at each meeting help defray the cost of the room hire. Your first meeting is free.

Formed in 1938 by a group of Lancashire Dialect enthusiasts, the objects of the society are the maintaining and increasing of interest in Lancashire.

At the meetings, members are entertained by a speaker or a performer.

Visit the link below for the full 2024 calendar.

01706 826227

https://www.edwinwaughdialectsociety.com/events-calendar.html

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