Gobbinlanders disco in the 70's.
 

Does any one remember Gobbinlander's disco? lt was on the next block up from the old co-op, & ran from about 1971-74. lt was owned by my dad & his friend tony perkins [ who is still in business as a butcher in ossy.] On the same block @ the same time, my mum had a cafe, & also our family bakery. On the 1st night the disco opened ** which was only selling pop & crisps] there was a riot as so many people turned up, sinks were pulled off the walls & the police came to disperse the people that couldn' t get in!

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I will ask my dad he is a very old mate of tony from his childhood..

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Tony's my Godfather, & still makes the best sausages in Ossy- thinking about it he's the only butcher left since Farnworth's closed. Between them Tony & my Dad had the sausage & meat pie & teenie glam- rock disco business sewn up!

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I'll ask Tony on Friday.

He isn't the only butcher, there is one up past the Co-Op but can't remember the name. But he does have the best sausages.

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bet you a fish supper theres not another butcher.

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Unless he's gone in the last month or so ......

and only if the fish supper comes from Yvonne's chippy.

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Of course keep it in the family! Were you in the scouts Pendy @ the same time as Tony, [& my Dad?] lf you 're the same age,l know who you are unless you've got brothers, or weren't in the scouts in the late 50's early 60's. Don t pull the pansies out of my window boxes when Tony tells you what a delghtful person l am! lol
P.S Don't ask him about his Uncle Jack Killier he was in the navy!!!!!!! lol

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the only butcher left since Farnworth's closed.

Would this be George Farnworth who used to have a butchers shop in West End? I knew him when meat was rationed and a pound of scrag-end had to last a week. :D

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It was George Farnworth, he was the father then his son took over. l don't know where they were before the corner of Trinity street. It's been sold to turn into flats, the prices of dwellings obviously outstrips the need for shops in Ossy. I blame Thatcher & Buy-the-House! [Also for the lack of non-rationed scrag end!!]

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its whittikers next to tsb bank up past the library thats left, isnt there one higher up too at the end of trinity st., or has that now closed?

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There is another butchers @ the other end of the block to The Royal Oak! OMG, l owe Pendy a fish supper! He's called John Whittaker, & supplies my brother's shop everyday! l feel a bit of a teacake now, after elevating Tony Perkins to the title of Ossy's only butcher! lol.

Ossy web site found in butchers!
 

Went to Tony Perkin's for a chop for tea, & to warn him he may be asked some strange questions. It was weired though, before I said anything he started talking about Gobbinlanders and someone who was connected with it [the dj?] now has a website full of photos about Ossy. You may already know about it, but for those that don't it's at http:/ossygobbin2003.fotopic.net it has over 800 pics both past & present. It's strange no one remembers the disco, the people who went to it I suppose would be in their late 40's-50's now, they can't all of emmigrated to Blackburn!

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Afraid I was one of the Ossy discoers, is that a word?, I remember them starting in different places, maybe the brains a gone a bit but to much barley wine and the odd spliff may have taken a few cells.

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At last someone who remembers going there, [or who'll admit to it.] l was only about six or seven, but remember it was painted black in side & had a big psychedelic painting in day-glo paint, of Marc Bolan on one wall. lt also had a stage were local bands used to play sometimes.