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whats all this in the telegraph that they are removing the lamp at ta library?

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big meeting going on , is that all the people you voted for do?talk drivel they are talking about something going back years not yesterday (but that would be too quick)and you have to let the ar..oles argue about it and come up with nothing!

leave history aS IT STANDS.

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Perhaps it's going to be the new site for the Arndale clock?


Remember the success? Arndale clock Looks like the clock, wherever it is, will be moved over so the lampost can be stored in the same place!

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They're talking about moving the lamp across the road to the Jubilee gardens. Think the idea is so that it would become a centre point and people would be more likely to see it. Got to admit I'm a bit puzzled because it's a little bit like moving the North Pole or the flag on the moon - the point with the lamp is that 'x' marks the spot. It's not really the lamp that matters, it's where it is that matters.

Oswaldtwistle Area Council have it on tonights agenda to discuss.

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One Word..........................Britcliffe.......... .....................

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hes ears must be burning! or should i say cheeks!:D
what lamp are we talking about then?:confused:

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the one they put there in 1970, they put it in front of the library where the original gas lamp used to be,anyone who lived above the lamp was more than likely to work down the pit. Them who lived below the lamp worked in textile!they nicknamed them above the lamp gobbiners,so if you live past the library you are a gobbiner.

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Oswaldtwistle Area Council meeting is tonight, 7pm at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre.

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will you be attending gayle?

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Yes, I went along. A lady Nichola Cook from the Regeneration Team presented the new positioning of the lamp (Jubilee Gardents) and then PB asked everyone what we thought. He stressed at that point that none of the Council had expressed an opinion. Not unsurprisingly public opinion was against moving the lamp. Then the councillors all said that they too agreed and were not in favour. Doesn't look like it will happen! It was also mentioned that they should make a feature of the existing lamp in its current site - the land is owned by Lancashire County Council and not HBC, so the Area Council is now going to write the LCC and ask them to do something.

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Can I just say that this was the first Area Council meeting that I've been to and I've remembered why I stopped going in the first place. I'm 40 years old and my presence there brought the average age down by at least 10 years.

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I missed the item on the agenda about the proposed work in Rhyddings Park. Did anyone else go and can they update us?

I did notice in the notes that there is going to be a Friends of Rhyddings Park meeting at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre on 28th June - I think it said 7.30pm (but it might be worth checking if you were thinking of going).

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where did you expect to go gail at your age of the game, you think you are old now!!!! AVITTTT

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now who do you think WHO SAID MOVE OUR TRY TO------- Name starts with P and ends with B LIKES MESSING THINGS UP DOE'S A GOOD JOB OF IT 2 == Leve the Lap whats it done to you PETER AND AFTER ALL THIS TIME CAME TO IS HEAD E THINK I WILL MOVE THE OSSY LAMP SILLY ASS.

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well theres one for the book thanks for telling me willow )------sorry Peter

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I know. :D Bit of a shock isn't it? Mind you, he did wait first to see which way the wind was blowing.

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well ossygobbin the only word i can think of that starts with P and ends in B is PLEB.pmsl.

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gayle thank you for the report on the lamp, one more favour....... theres another next week can you make it........lol

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I attended the area council meeting and I don't think there was ever any danger of the lamp being moved. As mentioned the lamp is on LCC land. I believe I witnessed a clever bit of politics at the meeting. The Area Council wanted the lamp to stay where it is, repair it and make it more of a feature by trimming the tree etc. By suggesting it should be moved, all the residents at the meeting (loudly) opposed it. HBC can know contact LCC and inform them that the residents of Oswaldtwistle want the lamp repairing etc. I think the meeting just gave HBC more backing with which to approach LCC with.

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would you not think that with modern technology they could make a lamp as it was back then,a bit more robust and vandle proof!

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Still confused as to who actually wanted the lamp moved?

As if Neil said it was just a bit of clever politics for a change to add weigh to approaching LCC, hats off. About time a bit of gumption was shown.

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I offered to put a new bulb in the lamp for them

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Quite right there Park :) My brother-in-law was one of the students that built the lamp, under the guidance of Frank Eland........at the annexe

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that wouldn't be the frank eland that taught metalwork at accy tech?if so great bloke and have a funny story there.

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hell he must be an age now,was involved with spring hill car club in my youth.

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I've only just come back to this thread - I don't know why I missed the posts.

Anyway, I agree with Neil, it was a clever bit of politics. Didn't know any of our councillors had it in them!

P.S. Staggering man - I don't think you'll find me at another area council meeting for quite some time. lol.

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come on gail dont spoil it now.

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Perhaps we can take it in turns, you go to the next one and I'll go to the one after that. That way we can guarantee coverage of them.

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It was only one of them. When I mentioned my thoughts after the meeting to a certain nameless council official type I received a sly smile.

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Now, let me guess.....

After I left the meeting I said to my husband that there was something suspicious about wanting to move the lamp in the first place - it seems like such a ridiculous idea but I hadn't put two and two together. Now it all makes sense.

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Maybe I need therapy because I find the Area Council Meetings interesting. Often quite amusing. I need to get out more, don't I?

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Amusing - yes, I can sort of agree.

But looks to me like you've just nominated yourself as our regular reporter from the meetings. When's the next one?

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Bet you don't get a cuddle and your hair ruffled there though do you? He he he:D

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No I didn't. Most upsetting you were not there to touch me up again :).

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Just discovered this. Move the lamp? - it's sacrilege. However, what worries me just as much is that Hyndburn don't seem to know the derivation of the name "Oswaldtwistle". On the nameplate-thing in the gardens by the Co-Op (is that the Jubilee Gardens?) it says "Fork of land between two rivers". Balderdash! - Ossy takes its name from King Oswald of Northumbria, and the fact that it marked the boundary or "Twisla" of his kingdom. Don't Hyndburn know nuffink?