Lovely And Northern - Page 2

Less · 25-10-2006, 18:48

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

She had an owl?

Yes, just before she went to the Crimean War she had a pet baby owl called Athena who travelled in her pocket.

BLACKBURN RAVER · 25-10-2006, 18:51

now im lost again...lol..

gayle....

" pretty pwease " .......

Less · 25-10-2006, 18:59

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Yes, just before she went to the Crimean War she had a pet baby owl called Athena who travelled in her pocket.

I suppose it could have been worse, the troops would have made a swift recovery if she had turned up with one of these!

Gayle · 25-10-2006, 19:06

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Originally Posted by Less

The Owl is about the original 'Lady of the Lamp', Ms Nightingale.

As opposed the the current 'Lady of the Lamp', Mrs Knight, N Gayle.

The 'gobbin' is local name for a sliver of coal, so small that it fell out of the coal sacks or off the trucks around the coal face. The main coal mine in Oswaldtwistle used to be around where the library is now (roughly). People who lived around the coal face were very poor so they would go out at the end of the shift and collect all the slivers of coal that had fallen off the truck, thus they were named 'gobbiners' i.e. collectors of gobbins.

When the library was built on the site a lamp (actually two lamps originally) were placed there to commemorate the mining heritage. That's why gobbiners are people who live 'above the lamp'.

BLACKBURN RAVER · 25-10-2006, 19:12

ah ha ....gotchya ...ty

WillowTheWhisp · 25-10-2006, 19:26

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Originally Posted by Less

Yes, just before she went to the Crimean War she had a pet baby owl called Athena who travelled in her pocket.

Well I never did! I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

cherokee · 25-10-2006, 19:38

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Originally Posted by Gayle

As opposed the the current 'Lady of the Lamp', Mrs Knight, N Gayle.

The 'gobbin' is local name for a sliver of coal, so small that it fell out of the coal sacks or off the trucks around the coal face. The main coal mine in Oswaldtwistle used to be around where the library is now (roughly). People who lived around the coal face were very poor so they would go out at the end of the shift and collect all the slivers of coal that had fallen off the truck, thus they were named 'gobbiners' i.e. collectors of gobbins.

When the library was built on the site a lamp (actually two lamps originally) were placed there to commemorate the mining heritage. That's why gobbiners are people who live 'above the lamp'.

Well i never.................. I grew up in ossy and thats the first time i heard that. often wondered ty gayle well put

WillowTheWhisp · 25-10-2006, 19:41

My Dad used to call the area above the lamp "Gobbinland"

rishton blue · 25-10-2006, 21:22

i wonder why he didnt just ask me.

pendy · 26-10-2006, 16:42

I thought everybody knew that it's always been Gobbinland above the library. I have heard an alternative explanation for the name, though, that it comes from "gobbin" as a way of talking or accent. Mind you, if you look across the road, Hyndburn explain the name "Oswaldtwistle" as "a fork of land between two streams" or something similar. Nothing like - It's Oswald's Twistla - i.e. the boundary of King Oswald of Northumbria's kingdom. Says a lot for local knowledge, dunnit.