One final photo from the premiere on Wednesday brings us some character players from Sherwood Forest. They were posing for the local newspaper outside the Cornerhouse, where the screening took place. The photographer got them to stand in various places along the road. He even got them to walk across the zebra crossing, Beatles style.
That must have been quite startling, but fun, for passersby!
ReplyDeleteExcellent... we have some strange looking stones high on a local hillside that are called
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Loxley Cottage Built 1785 ... it seems Cheshire is full of storys about Robin and his Merry Men.. this comes from where I live...
'Robin Hood may have spent much of his time in Sherwood Forest, but did you know he was a frequent visitor to Tameside? Probably the "thick woods of Longden" with their wealth of wild red deer, induced him to lead his band from the haunts of Sherwood to the land of Longdendale.
Robin Hood and his Merry Men appeared one day in Longdendale country. They came upon a handsome young man who was pining for his loved one. He was engaged to a beautiful maiden, but her guardian had forbidden their marriage and had shut her up in his castle.
Robin sent Friar Tuck to talk to the evil baron who consented to the marriage on one condition. Robin Hood had to shoot three arrows from the large burial mound and hit the two standing stones known as the Druid Stones. Despite the seeming impossibility of the task, Robin hit the stones on his third attempt and made a notch so deep that it may be seen to this day. The stones were renamed Robin Hood’s Picking Rods.
The Baron was in a great rage and set another impossible task. He demanded that the outlaw throw a great stone into the valley below. ix of the Baron’s men failed to lift it, but Robin Hood slowly raised the great stone and then, with one mighty throw, cast it out westward towards the sunset and amid a wild shout of triumph, it disappeared in the distance. They afterwards found the stone in the bed of the River Tame, in Hulme’s Wood and under the name of "Robin Hood's Stone" it remains in that same spot to this day.'
I think other counties would quite like their own Robin Hood.... but unil then will keep pinching the true one... Yours ;o)
Whatever happened to Lincoln Green?lol
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