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Re: The Gobbin Lamp
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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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I agree the term Gobbiner predates the library lamps, and perhaps even any street lamp, which were used as a mythical marker to divide the town.
It's highly doubtful the term goes back to the eighteenth century. As most of the town wasn't built then. The mines weren't opened until the 1840s, and the town before then was centred around the Straits, before the rapid expansion of new houses that were built from the 1860's onwards for the people who came to work in jobs associated with the textile mills.
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Last edited by garinda; 27-09-2011 at 08:00.
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