 The 18th @-@ century caricaturist and satirical poet John Collier , who used the pseudonym Tim Bobbins , was born in Urmston in 1708 . A self @-@ styled Lancashire Hogarth , his first and most famous work , A View of the Lancashire Dialect , or , <unk> and Mary , appeared in 1746 , the earliest significant piece of published Lancashire dialect . A local public house , The Tim Bobbin , is named after him . 
