'Looking Back' Dialect Poem Stories are about people, places and happening around Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1920's and 1930's, as fondly remembered by Yorkshire Poet Ron Bairstow. They reflect life in all towns and villages in the UK during that period.

Now available in Book and Audio Tape format they make a superb gift for anyone with an interest in English history, Yorkshire history, Industrial history, or Dialect poetry.

The 90 minute Audio Tape was broadcast in the BBC Radio Leeds Series 'Bairstow's Bradford', and along with the book, features 16 of Ron's most popular poems including:
Battle of Bolling Hall, Blind Walter, Salt Jim, Tingalari Man, Tuppenny Rush, T'owd Chemist Shop, Whitsuntide Walk, Shipley Glen, and many more.

Ron's poem stories are a slice of history in poetry and capture some of the atmosphere of life in the North of England in the 20's and 30's.

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You will receive a copy of the 'Looking Back' Booklet AND the Audio Tape of Ron Bairstow's Dialect Poems, in which Ron reads them for your pleasure.

Listen to the sound of Yorkshire

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UK: £12, Rest of World: £15

Ours was a busy house, ours was,
Busiest house in t'street,
Folks allus coming and going, Especially on Friday Neet.

We'd allus friends and neighbours,
Popping their heads round t'door,
Saying, "Have you heard they've buried so and so,
Aye, I'll have a cup of tea I'm sure".

By Ron Bairstow