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In coal mines, the 'gob' is an area close to the coal face which has been excavated then filled with the rock taken from aboive and below the coal seam. I reject the notion that this nicknames for Ossie residents is linked to that, as there are very few nicknames for Lancashsire townsfolk which are industry-linked, but lots of examples of words like gobbin & gawby being used as terms of derision for inhabitants who are perceived by others as being simpletons. There are several examples of 'big lamps' being used in the nicknaming process, and two of them are actually called ;The Gawmless'.

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How embarrassing.

The name Gobbiner's likely derived from old French.

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gobbin v • [Cf..Engl dial gubbins fragments]

gubbins [ˈgʌbɪnz]n Informal
1. an object of little or no value
2. a small device or gadget
3. odds and ends; litter or rubbish
4. a silly person[C16 (meaning: fragments): from obsolete gobbon, probably related to gobbet]

gobbon noun.LME-L16.
[Old French, app. rel. to gobbe and gobet: see GOB noun1, GOBBET noun. Cf. GUBBIN.]
A piece, a slice, a gobbet; a gob of slimy material.

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Wasn't Tealeaf born Roe Greave Road;)

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Is Church below the lamp then? :D

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I heard he was found in an old banana crate, floating in some bull rushes, by the side of the canal.

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Coincidentally enough, I was sitting there this morning consuming a large sausage barmcake purchased from Martins, esteemed family bakers, ;) when I noticed what looked like a set of stocks. Is this where non-Gobbiners were pelted with lumps of coal by their Gobbiner neighbours?

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In my childhood in the 40s the stocks were in Rhyddings Park - we used to play on them - don't know where they are now (I don't get out to look)

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I used to look bewildered when I worked there as a nipper, and someone asked for a 'barm cake'.

I still view it as a suspiciously foreign Accy word.

Hope you enjoyed your sausage teacake.

:D

We were talking about the stocks today.
I think they are just Victorian whimsey, and were never used.

Though since they're there, never say never.

Seems a shame if they're never used for their intended purpose.

:rolleyes::D

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They're at the end of the little library garden.

Where were they in the park?

They appeared at the library in the mid seventies, due to the intervention of the Ossy Civic Society. (Benita Moore, Winnie Hogan, and Cllr. Roberts.)

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I'll have to be honest with you, Gary, that's the first time I've ever been in the shop in my life. However, the barmcake was excellent - a veritable prince amongst sausage barmcakes - and excellent value at £1.85. Nice, friendly service too. I shall be returning!

As for the stocks, any suggestions? ;)

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Glad you enjoyed it.

There's no cabaret there on Tuesdays.

It's my mum's day off.

:D

Since Margaret mentioned they used to be up Rhyddings park, I'm more than ever inclined to believe they're the product of a Victorian industrialist's whimsical imagination, along with the folly, and the cannon that used to be there too.

Who would I happily see sat in 'em?

Me!

Free fruit and veg?

Bring it on.

:D

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Ya I remember them being there too Margaret, next to the sand pit, I actually thought I saw them in the library gardens whilst I've been out this summer and this has been confirmed by Wyn

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Ya somewhere for Tealeaf to sit when he visits Ossy:rolleyes::D

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I was in Rhyddings Park 3 years ago and noticed the sand pit had gone.
For persons who want to know precice location - it was on the opposite side of the path to the place where the playground has been built.

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Spent some happy hours in the sand pit when I was very young, seems sad that time have changed so that a sand pit is no longer considered an attraction for young kids