Book extract
'In mi Gobbinland' is about the famous Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle and is the work of Derek Stanton about his home town.
Born in 1934 and now living in Withnell Lancashire
It was a a bestselling local book and very well received.
It is now a collecters item. Geoffrey Mather a former Daily Express features Editor is the author of 'To See A Dead Man Dance' This gruesome murder took place at 'Haigh Hole Pit' near Wigan in Lancashire . It will make your hair stand up on the back of your neck. He also wrote 'Tacklers Tales' the poor lampooned tacklers were always being accused of being 'gormless' not the full shilling. Joan Pomfret a Lancashire dialect writer of some note, composed the selction of poems and stories in her book 'Nowt So Queer' A 'Lancashire Miscellany' is a gem, produced by the Oldham Chronicle newspaper and written by James Bennett, who I am informed hung himself after he finished this book.