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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
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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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
