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Originally Posted by garinda
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.
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The problem is the term 'Gobbin' - meaning someone thick - is a generic (Lancastrian) dialect word and as as such is not just applicable to the dwellers of Ossy (however much as an apt description). I don't know how far back it goes - nor it's scource. It may be an invention of the early industrial revolution (which in North East Lancashire's case is 18C, not 19C) or it may go back well further than that - maybe early English, maybe Scandavian in origin.
Therefore we can't stick a time line in there and say 'Lamp - 1915 - Gobbiner ' or even 'Lamp - 1850 - Gobbiner'.