The Gobbin Lamp

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jaysay

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

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

[Neil]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

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.

You need to get out more its not been there for a loooong time

[Bee]

Here are the "move the lamp" LET Pages;
'Leave lamp alone' (From Lancashire Telegraph)
&
Ossie's Gobbin Lamp will stay put (From Lancashire Telegraph)

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

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

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How would you know that if you hadn't been watching and observing 'out of interest'?.

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

As for the stocks, any suggestions?

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

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Gayle

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

Not friends with Neil anymore Gayle

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Not friends with Neil anymore Gayle

Ha ha, no that would just be for fun.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Gayle

Ha ha, no that would just be for fun.

Let me know if its happening and I'll move heaven and earth to be there

[mobertol]

"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.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by mobertol

"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.

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

[Bob Dobson]

I distance myself totally from the myth about the navvies and the Town Bent material. I repeat what I wrote earlier - a gobbin is a simpleton., Couldn't be simpler. If you don't understand that, you're a gobbin.

I like the Ossie cloggers paragraph.

[MargaretR]

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.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by jaysay

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

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!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

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.

The book was written from recordings made by Benita Moore when she talked to old folks from the Hyndburn area.
It is an attempt to record and preserve people's recollections through oral history. The accuracy of the recollections depends on the person telling their tale.
It contains details of the local dialect, folk songs, crafts, trades and industries, descriptions of all areas of local lives and physical descriptions of places as they were in the early part of the Twentieth century, some of which no longer exist.
There are also some great photos -one of James St. Working men's Club in Ossie which was apparently known as the "Tin Hut"

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by mobertol

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!

Na couldn't be me was never a little boy

I knew Bill Salmon, his grandson is the proprietor of Hyndburn Cars (Taxies), The Duckett brothers were both in St Mary's Amateurs in the early days, and Jim Stevenson was a regular in the Stop and Rest, sadly all are now deceased. I'm nearly sure Bob did publish a book my Benita

Oh yes mobertol, just have a quick shufty at your original post, the spelling is very interesting to say the least