Major Oak

[carni 10,094]

Moz,

Your photo of the children and the Major Oak must be how most of us Nottstalgians remember it, on our visits to Edwinstowe all of those years ago. To any one who has never seen the real thing, you only have to look at the three children sitting on the Tree Trunk in your photo, to realise just how big the Tree was. I'm sure we used to scramble inside!

[katyjay 5,091]

I bet you did, Carni, because I did too. All kids loved to do that. I remember the floor had been concreted. They always said that the tree would hold 22 people, a bit of a squash if that was true. Rumour had it that Robin Hood hid in there, as a kid I believed it.

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Of course he hid in there. He rode down Robin Hood Chase into Sherwood Forest and hid in the Major Oak. My Mum told me.

Does anyone know how old it actually is?

[Fynger 841]

The board that is there explains that this tree would have been no more than an acorn in Robins time....so would have been hard to hide in.

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Considering that he never existed that leaves plenty of scope.

[LizzieM 9,510]

Don't spoil it for us Bilboro-lad! Wherever I've been in the World, if someone asks me where I come from and I say 'Nottingham', folk will always say 'Ah, Robin Hood' ....... Often followed by 'Nottingham Forest and Brian Clough'

[carni 10,094]

Who cares if it's make believe.... Lots of things are......It's harmless and what about Tintagel and Merlin? It all adds to our history and tourism, true or not!

[darkazana 1,736]

It was King Charles who hid in the Major Oak, not Robin Hood. Just saying

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Why is the Robin Hood airport in Doncaster then while we get East Mids.

[darkazana 1,736]

Robin of Loxley did exist, just not as romantically as he is portrayed.

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Charles never made it that far. His last night was spent at the Saracen's Head in Southwell.

[darkazana 1,736]

Cos Sherwood Forest stretched into Yorkshire and I think his family actually came from Yorkshire.

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Robin started to appear in folk songs in the late 1400s, almost 250 years after he was supposed to have died.

[LizzieM 9,510]

Why is the Robin Hood airport in Doncaster then while we get East Mids.

East Midlands Airport is in Leicestershire and Yorkshire has always tried to claim our Robin, but we have Nottingham Castle and a Sheriff.

[Bilboro-lad 294]

A ducal palace and a council employee?

[LizzieM 9,510]

So what? It wasn't so hundreds of years ago. You just like an argument!

[Bilboro-lad 294]

Yeah. That many hundreds of years ago that no-one knew he existed. He didn't have a woman in tow either. She came later. (ooer missus).

[carni 10,094]

#33 lol Darkazana

We live near Boscobel House and the story is that King Charles11 hid in the Royal Oak Tree overnight in 1651 after the Battle of Worcester. Of course I know all this, without looking it up! Honestly Perhaps him and Robin had a thing for hiding up trees!

[FLY2 10,108]

Sherwood Forest stretched way into South Yorks. I couldn't care less where he was born, Nottingham is where he made his name..

He wes "Robin of Sherwood" not Robin of Nottingham .

Jesus was born in a stable, but it doesn't make him a friggin' horse .

[Bilboro-lad 294]

No-one knows where Jesus was born.

[darkazana 1,736]

King Charles made it to Nottingham and raised his standard on Standard Hill so got further than Southwell.

[Fynger 841]

As with all Myths.....little bits of truth are used from here and there..then cobbled together to form a new story, which is usually the one that gets passed on.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

From what I read, "Robin Hood" was a legend made up of several characters spread over a couple of century's, some of the "roots" appear to have come from South west Yourkshire and others from North Notts...

There are a couple of sites where the owners traced many of the stories back to fictitious stories, some to actual people, but most of the characters were unsaviory thieves and murderers embellished by ballad singers of the times..

As for someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor....give me a break.....LOL Only a lunatic would do that....

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

JC was born in Bethlehem, the Bible tells you that, but there is no mention of "Three Wise Men"...And as it was tax time, his birth has been placed sometime in late Autumn..

[LizzieM 9,510]

No-one knows where Jesus was born.

I've been in a church in Bethlehem that was built on the site of the stable where Jesus was said to have been born. I believed the tour guide .........