Steve Gardham wrote:-
"in the Saddleworth area. Ammon Wrigley did a great job in writing songs and bringing together local dialect pieces."

In Chapter 18, "Nowt as Queer as Folk: Dialect and Local Songs", Roud makes a special case for Lancashire. On page 569, he writes, "There was certainly a strong tradition of local dialect songs in Lancashire going back to at least the eighteenth century."
Elsewhere he writes that the county was not one that was satisfactorily investigated by the Victorian and Edwardian collectors but that he finds evidence of much local pride and a sense of ownership in their dialect songs as well as poems. On that same page he writes:-

Dialect poets rarely tackled the subjects that regular poets did, but concentrated on everyday lives of the common people of their area or the commonplace sights and sounds of their home places. They were very often comic and a common devise was the invention of a local 'character' through whose eyes the scenes and situations coild be described.