Beyond The Lamp

[jambutty]

OK! All you Golden Oldies or Silver Surfers if you like – us kids of the day (‘45 – ‘54) all knew Ossy as Gobbinland or Beyond The Lamp. So just exactly where did Gobbinland start and which lamp was it? Cor! I can almost hear the old brain cells creaking into action.

[Darby]

We've had this thread on here before. OK; at Ossy Library and beyond, was glorious Gobbin land.

Kids of the day 45---etc. Come on mi old Jambutty you must have been born in 37 or before the war (WW2), I bet you ran round Ossy waving the Union Jack in 45

[janet]

Why do they call it Gobbinland?

[jambutty]

I was born in April ’37 Darby but as my dad was a textile fitter for Howard and Bulloughs I was born in Estonia where he was fitting the new textile machines in a local factory. Come the war I bravely fought off the Germans but there were just too many for me (I mean what can a two and a half year old do?) and we were all captured and sent to a Concentration Camp for my dad, a prison for my mum and a Kindergarten for my brother and me. My mum, brother and me were repatriated to England in ’40 and after being bombed out of London and Manchester we ended up in Blackpool for the duration and shortly after got to Accrington where my dad took up his old job at H & B.

I’ve often wondered that too janet. Why did/do they call it Gobbinland?

[Tealeaf]

A "Gobbin" is an old Lancashire Dialect term roughly translated as "Village Idiot"...I think in these days of political correctness it would be unwise to refer to our friends from the other side of Ozzy Libary as a collection of idiots.

[jambutty]

Thanks for your explanation tealeaf. Now I know why on occasion someone would say to me, “Don’t be a gobbin.” I suspected that it meant something like fool or numbskull but couldn’t ask in case someone called me a right gobbin.

But if we called those who lived beyond the lamp Gobbins, I wonder what they called us?

[Tealeaf]

Probably unrepeatable on a clean, family website such as this

[Sparkologist]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

A "Gobbin" is an old Lancashire Dialect term roughly translated as "Village Idiot"...I think in these days of political correctness it would be unwise to refer to our friends from the other side of Ozzy Libary as a collection of idiots.

Aww, you've sussed me. Village idiot is gratuitously offensive, in these days of political correctness, intellectual pygmy is far easier on the ego

[Darby]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

A "Gobbin" is an old Lancashire Dialect term roughly translated as "Village Idiot"...I think in these days of political correctness it would be unwise to refer to our friends from the other side of Ozzy Libary as a collection of idiots.

Oh I'm not so sure. Have you been t'other side of Library lately??

[Tealeaf]

In my regular forays back to Church I habitually pop up to the Rose & Crown, Black Dog and other establishments on the Ozzy frontier....actually, you could be right...In fact, I think you are right

[Darby]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

In my regular forays back to Church I habitually pop up to the Rose & Crown, Black Dog and other establishments on the Ozzy frontier....actually, you could be right...In fact, I think you are right

Yeah, my regular when I'm over...Rose & Crown...great pub...well during the day, and the snug at night. Pity Angie and Bob moved on, but it still seems OK without them. It's the clientel...and a good pint too.