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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
It seems to me that those lamps are no more than an ornate decoration to the library, built with Mr Carnegie's money, in 1913 (if I recall correctly). Yet the inference is that the term 'Gobbiner' is far older than that (nineteenth, possibly eighteenth century) so I cannot see where the lamp connection is coming from, unless, of course, at some point in time there was another lamp which have served as a boundary marker or for some other use.
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It was actually 1915, that the library was opened.
I was always told by the people who remembered what was there before the Carnegie library, that this is where the 'owd lamp' was situated. Though as Bob said earlier, there's no photographic evidence turned up...yet.