Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 936418)

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

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 936415)

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.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 936421)

It wasn't really an ideal play item because some lads peed in it to simulate moats around sand castles.

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 936344)

As for the stocks, any suggestions? ;)

Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 936787)

I have a few suggestions for you but I'd probably get in trouble if I named names. Yes, you know who you are!!!! ;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 936852)

Not friends with Neil anymore Gayle:D:D

Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 936869)

Ha ha, no that would just be for fun. :D:D

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 939570)

"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.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 939633)

I have the book mobertol, if I remember it was published by our own Bob Dobson, sadly Benita is no longer with us either

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 939642)

I suppose when you publish a book there is no guarantee that what the author wrote is accurate, and you are not required to check that it is.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 939666)

It's pubblished by Carnegie Pubblishing Ltd. of Preston -my copy is signed and was given to me by Benita as a Xmas present, she was a family friend. There is a foreward by the then Hyndburn District librarian, Brian Ashton -no mention of Bob Dobson as far as I can see Jay.

It is sub-titled "Interviews with and tales of some interesting folk from Hyndburn and the Ribble valley."

For those interested in Ossie there are interviews with:
The Duckett brothers -builders who lived in Fielding lane.
Harry Godbold from Miller Close (aged 93 back in 1990)
Bill Salmon ex-coalman from Ossie
Jack Holmes a retired miner
Jimmy Stephenson, past-owner of Ossie's "Potato Pie Shop".

A little annecdote which i like is the following:
A retired school-teacher's remeniscence. He'd taught in a local school and had given the children a list of words to choose from and told them to write a sentence using any one of the words. One of the words was "comfort", he was amused to find a little boy who had written:
"I've comfort rent" (I've cum fer t'rent).
I wonder if the little boy was a certain John from Ossie who is well known for his spelling feats even today!:D