PopT Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Just to add to the confusion. How come Doncaster Airport was named Robin Hood Airport. Strange Methinks! Happy Days! PopT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1941 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Type this number s09543 http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk Robin Hood's cave Stanage Edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Just to add to the confusion. How come Doncaster Airport was named Robin Hood Airport...The marketing people came up with the name. There is some historical basis for this (evidence from the earliest - 15th century - Robin Hood ballads places him in South Yorkshire's Barnsdale Forest, which in the 1400s may have merged into Sherwood Forest). See the "Airport name" part of the Wikipedia article on the airport.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Musta dun sumat good. Only a couple of kings got good monikers (Alfie the Great, and Dick the Lion Heart) Not in this country he didn't, but then again you have to remember in his time they also owned about a third of what is now France.... Well until John lost Normandy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 ... king Richard, who was a Frenchman that couldn't speak a word of English rarely even visited this country...Yep - he was so fond of visiting the south of France that they called him Richard Gare de Lyon.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Night Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I knew his girlfriend. ---------- Post added 24-02-2015 at 23:59 ---------- They worked behind the bar in tights. Maid Marian used the pub as her office . Who was Maid Marian? ---------- Post added 25-02-2015 at 00:01 ---------- Also the position of 'Sheriff of Nottingham' didn't exist then. According to Wikepedia: 'From 1068 until 1567, the position existed as*'High Sheriff of Notti, nghamshireDerbyshire and the Royal Forests' Earliest references put him in the Barnsdale area, but he could have operated in Sherwood Forest which stretched much forther then, a horse ride away. * High was he didn't know the drugs were around then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrols Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Google robinhood-loxley.weebly.com Also http://www.robinhoodloxley.net/default.htm They make a convincing case! Still suggest you read this before you dismiss the idea altogther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davebrmm Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Just to add to the confusion. How come Doncaster Airport was named Robin Hood Airport. Strange Methinks! Happy Days! PopT because the red nutters on Sheffield council gave away ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 because the red nutters on Sheffield council gave away ours Oh no they didn't !!! Don't tell biased porky's, they sold it for a pound...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native lad Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) Google robinhood-loxley.weebly.com Also http://www.robinhoodloxley.net/default.htm They make a convincing case! Somewhere between a rock and a hard place in Loxley valley, I believe. "A pardon discovered by David Pilling and Rob Lynley identified Robin Hood as Robert Dore of Wadsley. His pardon reads "Robert Dore of Wadsley, otherwise known as Robert Hode (Hood) given the King's pardon on 22 May 1382." (Roll of King's Pardons 4-5 Richard II 1382.) The knightly Wadsley family were the lords of the manor, they hunted deer on Loxley Chase and fletchers (arrow makers) lived on Loxley Common..." http://robinhood-loxley.weebly.com/index.html Edited March 22, 2015 by Native lad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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