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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Quite correct Thomas....I was just testing to see the extent of local history knowledge amongst our younger members. By the way, neither the Carnegie building nor the lamp have always been there..so what do you think was the previous boundary line?
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The boundary line was the mine. Gobbin is a piece of coal, I think scrap coal, that had been discarded that poor people of the area (the area that is now above the lamp) used to collect up for their own fires. They became known as gobbiners. The library was built roughly on the land occupied by the mine. The lamp that is on the site is not actually the original lamp because when the library was built there were two lamps, some time later both were removed and replaced by a single one.