Enter Our Competitions at the Morpeth Gathering!
Dialect Comps 2024 Click on the link to find the categories of poetry and prose competitions and make sure you get your entries in by 1 March! Good luck! … Read More
Share this contentSinging out to save the Northumbrian dialect
THE Northumbrian dialect has been celebrated in song at Morpeth. And it came as music to the ears of members of the Northumbrian Language Society. Every year it invites a … Read More
Share this contentMorpeth Bull Inspires Songwriter
A BEEF about a bull inspired Morpeth dialect songwriter Graham Bell. A sculpture at Sanderson Arcade is a nod to the days when the town was home to one of … Read More
Share this contentMP Ian Lavery Launches the Society’s new dictionary – A Northumbrian Wordhoard
WANSBECK MP Ian Lavery helped launch a dialect dictionary at Morpeth. The pitman turned parliamentarian was an ideal choice for the job, never having lost his own northern accent since … Read More
Share this contentDictionary Launch and Roland Bibby Lecture
Don’t miss the official launch of the dictionary by MP Ian Lavery who has a strong pitmaic accent which doesn’t hold him back! Graham Bell’s lecture explains much about that … Read More
Share this contentSt Oswald’s Day Service: First Lesson
Forst Lesson from Isaiah 32: 1-8 Behowld a king’ll reign fairly an rulers’ll rule i justice Ivery porson’ll be a hidey-hole frae thi wind an a shield from thi storm, … Read More
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