Folk Customs

In this volume, relating to a district with which the writer was intimately acquainted, he has gathered up a few points of local interest, and, in connection with these, he has endeavoured to embody something of the traits of life in South Lancashire with descriptions of its scenery, and with such gleanings from its local history as bore upon the subject, and, under the circumstances, were available to him.

Waugh is commemorated on the Rochdale Dialect Writers’ Memorial,

“In grateful memory of four Rochdale writers of the Lancashire dialect who have preserved for our children in verse and prose that will not die, the strength and tenderness, the gravity and humours of the folk of our day, in the tongue and talk of the people.”
Erected in the year 1900.

• Chapel Island
• Ramble from Bury to Rochdale
• The Cottage of Tim Bobbin
• The Birthplace of Tim Bobbin
• Ramble from Rochdale to the Top of Blackstone Edge
• The Town of Heywood and its Neighbourhood
• The Grislehurst Boggart
• Boggat Ho’ Clough
• Rostherne Mere
• Oliver Fernleaf’s Watch
• Norbeck
• Wails of the Workless Poor
• A Wayside Incident During the Cotton Famine
• Saint Catherine’s Chapel
• The Knocker-Up
• The Complaint of a Sad Complaint
• Firelit Shed
• Dulesgate
• Pilling Moss
• The Forest of Rossendale
• Tattlin’ Mary
• The Storm
• Among the Preston Operatives