Don't know about these specific songs Marcus (and I'm not in Saddleworth Historical Society - I live in Cheshire, but of course Schofield is a familiar name in the area we are talking about).

There's a song called Friezland Ale, which is sung by Will Noble (who lives out near Denby Dale). That song was written by Ammon Wrigley from saddleworth, died 1946, local historian who published Songs of a Moorland parish. Seto to music by Hugh Beech, who sang it in the Royal Tiger, Austerlands near Oldham in the 1920s.

That might give some clues about putting tunes to words in the area!

Any connection with the brass band scene up there (in terms of writing tunes..)

Derek