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In the early morning the mill girls clumping down the cobbled street, all in clogs, making a curiously formidable sound, like an army hurrying into battle. I suppose this is the typical sound of Lancashire.


— 1936  Diary entry,18 Feb. He used this as material for his book The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).

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In a Lancashire cotton-town you could probably go for months on end without once hearing an'educated' accent, whereas there can hardly be a town in the South of England where youcould throwa brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.


— 1937  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.7.

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