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Bob Dobson · 08-10-2010, 16:33

Welcome Dave. Your posting gives me the opportunity of appealing for any photo of the Big Lamp that anyone may have. Please get it on here if you have one. None is thought to exist.

In trhe easrkly 70s I wrote a book - 'Lancashire Nicknames & Sayings' in which I stated that the big lamp, above which anyone born could call thwemzselves a true Gobbin, was outside the Palladium. It didnd't take my dad long to say "Tha's bloody well shown me up, gettin' position wrong" Luckily, it went into a second edition and I was able to correct it.

Big lamps , often called 'the gormless' feature in nicknames applied to the inhabitants of several Lancashire townships. They all infer some degree of mental instability or lack of intelligence. To be honest, I wish I could boast of being a Gobbin. Like Dave, i would tell the world I was an Ossie Gobbin.

08-10-2010, 16:33	#10
Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Re: Ossy Gobbin from above the lamp Welcome Dave. Your posting gives me the opportunity of appealing for any photo of the Big Lamp that anyone may have. Please get it on here if you have one. None is thought to exist. In trhe easrkly 70s I wrote a book - 'Lancashire Nicknames & Sayings' in which I stated that the big lamp, above which anyone born could call thwemzselves a true Gobbin, was outside the Palladium. It didnd't take my dad long to say "Tha's bloody well shown me up, gettin' position wrong" Luckily, it went into a second edition and I was able to correct it. Big lamps , often called 'the gormless' feature in nicknames applied to the inhabitants of several Lancashire townships. They all infer some degree of mental instability or lack of intelligence. To be honest, I wish I could boast of being a Gobbin. Like Dave, i would tell the world I was an Ossie Gobbin.