Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946)
Ammon Wrigley was an noted Saddleworth poet and local historian.
Selected Publications
- The Annals of Saddleworth from 1200 to 1900 (1901) by Ammon Wrigley
- Saddleworth Superstitions and Folk Customs (1909) by Ammon Wrigley
- Saddleworth: Its Prehistoric Remains (1911) by Ammon Wrigley
- Songs of a Moorland Parish (1912) by Ammon Wrigley
- The Wind Among the Heather (1916) by Ammon Wrigley
- Old Saddleworth Days and Other Sketches (1920) by Ammon Wrigley
- At the Sign of the Three Bonnie Lassies (1927) by Ammon Wrigley
- O'er the Hills and Far Away (1931) by Ammon Wrigley
- Songs of the Pennine Hills (1938) by Ammon Wrigley
- Old Lancashire Words And Folk Sayings: Parish Of Saddleworth (1940) by Ammon Wrigley
Selected Works
Wrigley's works are now in the Public Domain. The following are transcriptions from an anthology published after his death.
- An Alehouse Pot
- All Ask
- Apology
- At the Rising of the Sun
- Bill's o' Jack's
- Castleshaw Valley
- Come Out, the Spring is Roaming
- The Dalesman
- Donty's Supperin' Do
- A Doomed Oak
- A Driving Shot in a Driving Wind
- Exit
- The Fairy Etcher
- Flowers in an Oldham Alehouse
- Friezland Ale
- A Greeting
- Grenfilt
- Heather Time on Highmoor
- The Homestead
- A Hunting Day
- A Hunting Morn
- I Love the Road
- In Saddleworth
- In the Country
- Inscriptions
- Jim
- A Lancashire Neet
- Life
- Mat o' Jamie's
- Nan O' Ratcher's
- An Old Shepherd
- On Doldrum Hill in June
- On the Stanedge Moors
- An Orderment
- Owd Puddle's Alehouse
- Owdham Footbo
- The Pennines
- The Roamer's Return
- Roving o'er a Moorland
- The Royal Tiger Inn
- The Ruined Farmstead
- Saddleworth Church
- The Saddleworth Hills
- Saddleworthshire
- The Scouthead Road
- The Song Thrush
- The Song Thrush near a Town
- Spring in the North Country
- Springtime Calling
- A Springtime Letter
- A Summer's Night on a Moor
- Sunbeam and Shadow
- To a Moorland Lass on her Eighteenth Birthday
- To a Southern Friend
- To the Reader
- Town and Country
- Up Denshaw Way
- The West Wind in Spring
- Winds of the Pennines
- Youth and Age
Copyright Status
Under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the copyright of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works in the United Kingdom expires at the end of the period of 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author dies.
Ammon Wrigley died on 31 August 1946 and copyright on his works expired at the end of 2016.
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