What is the local dialect of Co Durham called?
Spoken between working class men
Clue the First part of the answer comes from where they worked and the second Half sounds almost Mechanical

Bedstor, the answer is Pitmatic.

Shouldn't this have been posted in trivia? Since you are giving clues, I assume you already know the answer.

I was that busy concentrating that I clean forgot where I was! dg @ ME

There are some Spoken clips on this Link have to scroll down a bit on the Main text
www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series7/geordie_dialect.shtml
Links through to other regional UK accents

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Midlands Dialect
Southern voices
Devon dialect
West accents
Comedy Accents

and many more besides

This is a very good link to Countless regional accent recordings
www.bbc.co.uk/voices/

I think the easiest for our friends across the Pond to try out for a start will be Cornish or Devon/Somerset?

Put it this way if you can do a passible Robert Newton /Long John Silver impression That's well "Over the Top" Cornish!

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Originally posted by bedstor:
I was that busy concentrating that I clean forgot where I was!

Shiver me timbers, that's always happening to me too.