# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine.
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Our next meeting will be held on Monday 2nd March at 7 O’clock

At Skelmersdale & Dalton Cricket Club, Blaguegate Lane  WN8 8TY

The Wardens refurbishment won’t be completed on time for this meeting but hopefully we will be back there soon.

Our speaker for the evening will be Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Telling us the story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)

His presentation is about how the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865 stopped our supply of raw cotton. This is the story, told in songs, poems and newspaper reports of the time, of how we survived as our mills began to close and some 500,000 workers were laid off with no social safety net to catch them.

A native speaker of Lancashire Dialect, Sid has been collecting songs and stories from Lancashire for over 40 years. He has performing them at folk, arts and literary festivals.
 Over the years he has been active in every dialect society in the County and I is currently Chairman of The Lancashire Society and President of the Lancashire Authors’ Association.
He has appeared regularly on BBC TV and radio, speaking on the Lancashire Dialect on Flog It, Countryfile, Michael Portillo’s Railway Journeys, Radio 4’s “Tongue and the Talk” and Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/skelmersdale/sid-calderbank-the-mon-for-dialect-and-song-in-lancashire-story-of-the-lancashire-cotton-famine/200029702462247
- **Event Categories**: meetups, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Skelmersdale
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Skelmersdale & Dalton Cricket Club
- **lat**: 53.553312015842
- **long**: -2.8210945175045
- **full address**: Skelmersdale & Dalton Cricket Club, 91 Blaguegate Lane, Skelmersdale, WN8 8TY, United Kingdom

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. being held?
  - **A:** Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. takes place on Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Skelmersdale & Dalton Cricket Club, 91 Blaguegate Lane, Skelmersdale, WN8 8TY, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine.?
  - **A:** Sid Calderbank, The Mon for Dialect and Song in Lancashire. Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. is organized by Skelmersdale Heritage Society.

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