The Gobbin Lamp
The Gobbin Lamp is to be restored :jimbo: :jimbo: :do-one: :do-one:;
Oswaldtwistle's Gobbin Lamp set to shine again (From Lancashire Telegraph) |
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The lamp sits in LCC land at the library.
There was a proposal a few years ago to move it across the road to Jubilee Gardens which is HBC land. That was a very interesting Area Council meeting, one of the best I have attended :D |
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I'll give it two weeks before its nicked for scrap.
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In my 1940s childhood there wasn't a lamp there, although the phrase 'above t'lamp' was in use.
I was glad to see that the news article makes this clear "The original lamp, a gas lamp, was removed many years ago and a campaign for its return saw two lamps, based on the original style, installed in the early 1970s, although only one of those now remains. " It may well have been melted down for war munitions, just as house garden railings were. |
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I'm not sure where abouts I live now above or below the lamp, I've a feeling that MargaretR and Mez might be just below and I must be just above
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Jaysay - if you have to ask that question, then clearly you are a gobbin and, in my humble opinion, a Gobbin.
I am told that there are no photos of the original 'big lamp' , so if you know of one, I will arrange for it to be copied and made available. The position of the big lamp is a source of embarrassment to me, as I wrote a book in the 70s in which I said that it was situated outside the Palladium. I had sought the opinion of Benita Moore before penning it. Luckily, the book went into a second edition and I was able to put the record straight. 'Big lamps' figure in the folk-lore of several Lancashire towns, marking the line or position above or below which a resident is a gobbin or similar word meaning a person of little intelligence. |
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What exactly is meant by this phrase 'below the lamp'? The library stands on that part of Union road which roughly runs in an East-West direction. So is anyone north of the line where the lamp stands a Gobbiner/Gobbinlander? Or is it the other way round? Or is it something to do with it's position just by Union Rd, in which case it's totally meaningless - which is something to be expected from anyone from Ossy.
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