It's an old Lancashire custom.
Edition: 2nd ed. revised.
Publisher: Guardian P.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Preston (Lancs)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Lancashire (England) -- Social life and customs
First sentence: Once, in Euston Road, on a wet day with London looking its worst, a stranger sitting next to me on top of a bus read the label on my suitcase and ask, laconically, "What's Lancashire like?".
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Previous ed., London, Dobson, 1952.
Table of contents: label: I
pagenum: 13
title: To have a gradley view; label: II
pagenum: 35
title: To go t' th' mill in th' morning; label: III
pagenum: 55
title: To have a reet good do; label: IV
pagenum: 77
title: To ha' th' har' stone well mopp'd; label: V
pagenum: 97
title: To hope yo'll cum agen; label: VI
pagenum: 109
title: To speak a bit broad like; label: VII
pagenum: 128
title: To mek nowt grow summat; label: VIII
pagenum: 137
title: To swaarm wi' boggarts un witches; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 161; label: Index
pagenum: 163