Hi
Thanks for all your replies so far! I will send PMs to various people who've expressed an interest in helping.
Just to clarify, my original research question involved looking at traditional dialect studies and doing a present day survey to give us some ideas of how the dialect may be changing. The traditional surveys often involved only men, so I wanted to start with gathering information about how women speak - as we all know men and women often speak differently from each other!
However, I am very happy to talk to women or men to allow me to get a good indication of the variety of accents spoken in Accrington nowadays, from the most traditional Lancashire to accents which may have changed a bit.
If you have any more ideas or suggestions for me then please feel free to post them for me here. Thanks very much!