Voices From The Dales

Dialect pt.5: George Calvert’s verses

Andrew Fagg/Dales Countryside Museum Season 2 Episode 5

Series Two special guest Val Ward reads the dialect verse of the late road sweeper George Calvert from Gayle.  Three poems are featured: ‘Kit Storra’; ‘Mi Granfatther’; and ‘T’Paper Lad’, which was written in tribute to John Mason. Special guest Rob Ward also remembers the village allotments and George ‘Laps’ Alderson.  Presented by Andrew Fagg from Gayle chapel, where George Calvert said people would sing ‘wi’ a gusto ‘et mead yer throats thrive’. Published on Friday 3 February 2023.