Sammy Craddock in That Lass o' Lowries, Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1877.
'Arter aw, it does a mon no hurt to travel. I should na wonder if I mought see things as I nivver heard on if I getten as fur as the Contynent. Theer’s France now – foak say as they dunnot speak Lancashire i’France, an conna so much as understand it. Well, theer’s ignorance all o’er the world.'
Sammy Craddock in That Lass o' Lowries, Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1877.
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Phil Benson
Born in Manchester when it was still part of Lancashire, which it still is really. Exiled in sunny Sydney, I love to read Lancashire books Archives
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