.... 23 Posted April 13, 2012 Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 A fine little and extensive site for anyone interested in Nottingham's most (in)famous son. Well done the webmaster - a very good Job. ROBIN HOOD WAS HERE 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 13, 2012 Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 I agree, Stu. It's a great site and I'm looking forward to reading it all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
burtkt 4 Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Hi I think the chap that created this site also made some interesting videos they are on youtube, sorry in advance if they are on his site already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxCWEuQ7i8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Looking forward to viewing that with sound when I get home tonight. Looking at the video title, not to forget Robin's historic 'meeting' with Friar Tuck at Fountaindale which is still accessible up in Harlow Wood. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
burtkt 4 Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Hi Some of the videos also cover Derbyshire (dare I say lol) , like his style old rusty p 8-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,681 Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 BUMP . Bumping this thread as a jazz pal and fellow band member of my brothers , called Bob Hudson , wrote a piece of music, especially for the Millennium in 2000 . It was called The Robin Hood Suite and was performed and recorded just the once at The Bonnington Theatre in Arnold to a capacity crowd in May of that year . For some technical reason it was never released generally and Bob , after all these years , wanted it putting on youtube so that the piece could be heard by others . I volunteered to upload it and have added some still pictures to the music . Am about half way through adding the tunes and below is one called Sherwood Forest , that to be honest I have just used arty generic tree pics . The next piece I am working on is called The Major Oak and whilst looking for pictures and info came upon this site that has plenty of good information about our most famous tree . So if anyone has any other "facts" I can add , feel free . I'm sure I read somewhere that the tree was unlikely to have been much more than an acorn at the time of Robin Hood . Didn't realise it was called the Major Oak because it was the favourite tree of Major Hayman Rookes in 1790 . It has also gone by the name of Queens Oak and Cockpen Tree . http://www.majoroak.org.uk/main/majoroak.htm and 10 facts about the tree from the Beeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/sense_of_place/facts/major_oak.shtml 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 David, thanks for the BUMP and attaching the Bob Hudson piece, really enjoyed it. I'll mention this to my brother and nephew, the latter having his own jazz ensemble for many years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 This looks good, especially about the meeting with Friar Tuck. I understand when Robin met Little John, they had a staff meeting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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