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Re: The Gobbin Lamp
"An Ossie "Gobbin"
...wasn't a simpleton as people seem to think.
"Gobbin" comes from the material found at Town Bent.When the Irish navvies were laying the main road through Oswaldtwistle they ran out of road material just at the lamp which stood where the library is. The irishmen found this other material at Town Bent and they called it "Gobbin". And now anyone who comes from above the lamp comes from "Gobbin Land" and is affectionately known as a "Gobbiner".
The Oswaldtwistle clog-dancers have a dance called the Gobbiner's Jig and two other dances they perform are The Ossie Jig and The Oswaldtwistle Hornpipe.
Oswaldtwistle is split into four; Top End (Gobbin Land), Bottom End (Below Lamp), West End and Stanhill. Each section of people are proud of their own area but they are even more proud that they all come from Oswaldtwistle itself."
This information was given to Benita Moore by an old man who has since died. Extract from her book: Lancashire Lives, 1990.
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