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Old 25-09-2011, 18:57   #1
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The Gobbin Lamp

The Gobbin Lamp is to be restored ;
Oswaldtwistle's Gobbin Lamp set to shine again (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Old 25-09-2011, 19:19   #2
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The lamp sits in LCC land at the library.
There was a proposal a few years ago to move it across the road to Jubilee Gardens which is HBC land.

That was a very interesting Area Council meeting, one of the best I have attended
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Old 25-09-2011, 19:32   #3
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I'll give it two weeks before its nicked for scrap.

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Old 25-09-2011, 21:42   #4
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In my 1940s childhood there wasn't a lamp there, although the phrase 'above t'lamp' was in use.
I was glad to see that the news article makes this clear
"The original lamp, a gas lamp, was removed many years ago and a campaign for its return saw two lamps, based on the original style, installed in the early 1970s, although only one of those now remains. "
It may well have been melted down for war munitions, just as house garden railings were.
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Old 26-09-2011, 08:44   #5
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I'm not sure where abouts I live now above or below the lamp, I've a feeling that MargaretR and Mez might be just below and I must be just above
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Old 26-09-2011, 09:11   #6
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Jaysay - if you have to ask that question, then clearly you are a gobbin and, in my humble opinion, a Gobbin.

I am told that there are no photos of the original 'big lamp' , so if you know of one, I will arrange for it to be copied and made available.

The position of the big lamp is a source of embarrassment to me, as I wrote a book in the 70s in which I said that it was situated outside the Palladium. I had sought the opinion of Benita Moore before penning it. Luckily, the book went into a second edition and I was able to put the record straight. 'Big lamps' figure in the folk-lore of several Lancashire towns, marking the line or position above or below which a resident is a gobbin or similar word meaning a person of little intelligence.
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Old 26-09-2011, 09:51   #7
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Jaysay - if you have to ask that question, then clearly you are a gobbin and, in my humble opinion, a Gobbin.

I am told that there are no photos of the original 'big lamp' , so if you know of one, I will arrange for it to be copied and made available.

The position of the big lamp is a source of embarrassment to me, as I wrote a book in the 70s in which I said that it was situated outside the Palladium. I had sought the opinion of Benita Moore before penning it. Luckily, the book went into a second edition and I was able to put the record straight. 'Big lamps' figure in the folk-lore of several Lancashire towns, marking the line or position above or below which a resident is a gobbin or similar word meaning a person of little intelligence.
Think you got me wrong Bob, Where I live I think must be just above the place the lamp was situated, but I'm not 100% sure, I can't see through houses, but by my reckoning I'm on the boarder line, I was born bellow the Lamp by the way, a long way bellow
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Old 26-09-2011, 15:31   #8
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The lamp sits in LCC land at the library.
There was a proposal a few years ago to move it across the road to Jubilee Gardens which is HBC land.

That was a very interesting Area Council meeting, one of the best I have attended
Here's the "move the lamp" thread;
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...amp-12391.html
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I was born bellow the Lamp by the way, a long way bellow
and about four miles west!
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Old 26-09-2011, 17:41   #10
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and about four miles west!
If I've told you once I've told you a million times don't exaggerate
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If I've told you once I've told you a million times don't exaggerate
You were the one who told me your were born in Blackburn when I was on one of my "support your local football club" rants!
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Old 26-09-2011, 18:23   #12
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You were the one who told me your were born in Blackburn when I was on one of my "support your local football club" rants!
Ya thats right but was brought up from being about 5 days old bellow the lamp in Ossy, but those 5 early days were enough to make me a life long Rover
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Ya thats right but was brought up from being about 5 days old bellow the lamp in Ossy, but those 5 early days were enough to make me a life long Rover
Yes, well, I have given you special dispensation, so carry on with my blessing.
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Old 26-09-2011, 20:04   #14
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What exactly is meant by this phrase 'below the lamp'? The library stands on that part of Union road which roughly runs in an East-West direction. So is anyone north of the line where the lamp stands a Gobbiner/Gobbinlander? Or is it the other way round? Or is it something to do with it's position just by Union Rd, in which case it's totally meaningless - which is something to be expected from anyone from Ossy.
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Old 26-09-2011, 20:21   #15
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What exactly is meant by this phrase 'below the lamp'? The library stands on that part of Union road which roughly runs in an East-West direction. So is anyone north of the line where the lamp stands a Gobbiner/Gobbinlander? Or is it the other way round? Or is it something to do with it's position just by Union Rd, in which case it's totally meaningless - which is something to be expected from anyone from Ossy.
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