Lancashire Characters and Places: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lancashire Characters and Places, credited to Thomas Newbigging, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lancashire Characters and Places by Thomas Newbigging. Read by Phil Benson. An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Cheshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers (1889) and the History of the Forest of Rossendale (1893). (Summary by Phil Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lancashire Characters and Places
• Author credits: Thomas Newbigging
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 4:20:22

Catalogue topics

• essays
• lancashire culture

Track guide

1. 01 - John Critchley Prince — 29:19
2. 02 - The last of the ale-tasters — 16:22
3. 03 - Edwin Waugh — 21:30
4. 04 - The Gull Moss — 11:53
5. 05 - Lancashire factory doffers — 11:15
6. 06 - James Leach the Lancashire composer — 24:47
7. 07 - Rossendale past and present — 31:43
8. 08 - The Lakes of Dean — 9:54
9. 09 - Afield with the geologists — 16:26
10. 10 - Old John's Sunday dinner — 16:31
11. 11 - An ambrosial noon — 19:55
12. 12 - The Irwell — 14:28
13. 13 - Rough Lee — 6:31
14. 14 - Some Lancashire characters and incidents — 29:52

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