What is a dobbler?

[Steve]

Having been invited out for a drink at The Dobbler's Inn:
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried out
in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?


Steve

[Meldrew of Meldreth]

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?
I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried
out in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?

Google found me this in a couple of clicks:

dobbler: A person of limited social ability.
Example: Bob from Accounting is a real dobbler.

[Mary Pegg]

Post by Meldrew of Meldreth

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?
I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried
out in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?

dobbler: A person of limited social ability.
Example: Bob from Accounting is a real dobbler.

Wrong dobbler, I think.

Somebody told me that it meant a rag and bone man.

This quote seems to confirm it:
"York Street Mission is etched in the memory of Snowy Easton of Long Road,
Cambridge, who grew up in the streets around "Dobbler's Hole" ­ a rubbish
strewn rag-and-bone yard"
Cached from www.cambridge-news.co.uk/archives/2001/11/27/memories.html

[Chris Lamb]

Post by Mary Pegg

Post by Meldrew of Meldreth

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?
I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried
out in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?

dobbler: A person of limited social ability.
Example: Bob from Accounting is a real dobbler.

Wrong dobbler, I think.
Somebody told me that it meant a rag and bone man.
"York Street Mission is etched in the memory of Snowy Easton of Long Road,
Cambridge, who grew up in the streets around "Dobbler's Hole" ­ a rubbish
strewn rag-and-bone yard"
Cached from www.cambridge-news.co.uk/archives/2001/11/27/memories.html

A single article about Lucian Freud states:

He is a great and extremely discriminating “dobbler”.

in a paragraph about appreciating horses (and painting thereof), which
could even suggest that a dobbler is a horse fancier, but I do prefer the
rag-and-bone idea.

This has actually had an interesting side effect. I have found out how many
numptys can't spell Doppler.


Chris

[Gropius Riftwynde]

He is a great and extremely discriminating ´dobbler¡.
in a paragraph about appreciating horses (and painting thereof), which
could even suggest that a dobbler is a horse fancier, but I do prefer the
rag-and-bone idea.

Or alternatively a knacker, who might typically deal in rag-and-bone
merchandise. After all, where do the bones come from?

GR

[Mike W Miller]

Post by Mary Pegg
Somebody told me that it meant a rag and bone man.

The pub sign has a gentleman with a horse and cart that looks very much
like a rag and bone man.

Mike

[Andy Wade]

Post by Mary Pegg
Somebody told me that it meant a rag and bone man.

That or similar is, I think, the right answer in this context. The
Whitbread pub formerly known as the City Arms closed some time in the
early 80s (1982-83-ish at a guess). After a re-fit which included
fixing upside-down tables to the ceiling and glued-together books to
shelves it re-opened as a free house.

ISTR that the new name "Dobbler's Inn" was the suggestion of a Sturton
Street resident, after an old tinker, rag & bone man or similar
character who used to ply his trade in the area. There were articles
about it at the time in the CEN and Town Crier, so a search in the
Cambridgeshire collection would doubtless turn up more information.

[Dave Holland]

Post by Steve
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

The OED suggests it's an archaic form of "doubler", a large plate or
dish.

Dave

[Sarah Cooper]

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?
I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried
out in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?
Steve

a type of marble. HTH


SCoop

[Chris Brown]

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

It's a large mable, used in an archaic game played by discerning rag and
bone men of limited social ability.

I think that about covers all the bases.

[K H-Roberts]

Post by Chris Brown

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

It's a large mable, used in an archaic game played by discerning rag and
bone men of limited social ability.
I think that about covers all the bases.

Dobbler comes from the meaning to Dabble, a rag and bone man/or woman would
dabble, "those dobblers will always dabble" a dabbling dobbler was the old
saying. just ask Harold.

[Gropius Riftwynde]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:44:03 GMT, Chris Brown

Post by Chris Brown

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

It's a large mable, used in an archaic game played by discerning rag and
bone men of limited social ability.

Well, that must have been very nice, if somewhat exhausting, for
Mable.

GR

[Sarah Cooper]

Well in the absence of a Dobbler's website, I found a Dobbler's FC website
(related to the pub)which gives the explanation of marbles.

http://www.dobblersfc.com/whydobblers.htm



SCoop

[CWatters]

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?
I'm guessing the pub is named after some long-defunct trade, carried out
in the neighbourhood in times gone by but both Google and Wikipedia
provide no help on this one. I can ask at the bar when I'm there but I
wondered if anyone here might know?

Humm. Somehow I don't think this is the right one...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dobbler
Dobbler:
Someone who consumes more of other peoples drugs than their own.
Watch out here comes the dobbler.

[CWatters]

Post by Steve
http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/green.html#thedobblersinn
I got to thinking - what is a dobbler?

The geneaology newsgroup suggest.....

Post by Steve
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:58:40 GMT, "CWatters"

Elsewhere someone refers to "The Dobbler's Inn" and asks what a Dobbler

is?

Post by Steve

The sign has a man with a horse and cart. Possibly a rag-n-bone man?

Anyone

Post by Steve

know?

A "dobbin" was originally a cart-horse, so (also taking the nature of
the sign into account) a "dobbler" sounds like an alternative word for
a carter. Which end of which country is the above inn?
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[CWatters]

Try this..

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:lAscIeM7xGUJ:www.cambridge-news.co.uk/archives/2001/11/27/memories.html+dobbler+cambridge&hl=en

Quote...

York Street Mission is etched in the memory of Snowy Easton of Long Road,
Cambridge, who grew up in the streets around "Dobbler's Hole" ­ a rubbish
strewn rag-and-bone yard.