Hood spent his life nearby. He famously, on his deathbed, shot an arrow from his bow, asking that wherever in Sherwood Forest the arrow should land, there he should be laid to rest, and the whole area covered with an enormous plastic bubble for visitors to ride bikes and play bingo in.
It’s well documented in official records that the city’s original name was ‘Snottingham’ or ‘home of Snotts’, but when the Normans came, they couldn’t pronounce the initial letter ‘S’, so decreed the town be called ‘Nottingham’ or the ‘home of Notts’. It’s easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe.
Budget restraints on the first TV series of Robin Hood led to his Merry Men being played by cut-price actors
Amongst its many attractions, the town proudly boasts ‘The Trip To Jerusalem’, which is the oldest pub in England, a unique distinction shared with only 117 other English pubs. Coincidentally, theoldest pub in Israel is called ‘The Day Out to Center Parcs’.
Nottingham is associated with many famous names. Born in 1850, Jesse Boot founded the chain of chemists that took his name. After a few years he realised his slogan ‘Buy Your Drugs from Jessies’ wasn’t that great, and he changed the firm’s name to Boots. The business started in Goosegate Street where Jesse’s father had a tiny, oak-beamed pill shop. But there was so little demand for tiny, oak-beamed pills, they decided to diversify.
The greatest bare knuckle fighter of the Victorian age was born in Nottingham, one William ‘Bend-e-goes’ Thompson, probably the most famous British Boxer until Frank ‘Down-he-goes’ Bruno.
J. M. Barrie once visited Nottingham and was inspired to write Peter Pan when he spotted an urchin in the street. What a one in a million chance that one should have escaped from the marine biology aquarium that day, thus frightening him round the corner where he bumped into a disabled pirate and a crocodile with someone’s clock in its mouth. Luckily the Normans could pronounce the letter ‘L’ so didn’t ban it.
Another famous son of the city is Albert Ball, who shot down a total of 43 German aircraft. This would have been more, but Mr Ball was eventually banned from East Midlands Airport in 1983.
Nottingham is also famous for its links with football, and Notts County is proud to be the oldest team in the English league, but they hope soon to buy some younger players. Founded in 1862, when they were the only existing club, they had to play matches against themselves for two years. One can only imagine their disappointment at finishing runners up two seasons in a row.
LYTTELTON’S BRITAIN
ENGLAND
EAST ANGLIA
Peterborough Town Hall, 1940. (Photo by kind permission of the German Navy)
PETERBOROUGH
P ETERBOROUGH is fine cathedral city boasting a long and fascinating history. There is evidence of a Bronze Age settlement at ‘Flag Fen’ to the east of the city. This fenland site was discovered in 1982 when a team funded by English Heritage carried out a survey of local dykes. And when they couldn’t help, the team started digging up old flood defences.
Despite the fact that they were mainly marshland, the fens were first inhabited around 35,000 years ago, the earliest settlers having walked from Europe, which was then still attached to England. Evidence exists of many from France occupying the local bogs, as they were so much nicer than the French ones.
Peterborough’s cathedral has its origins in the Saxon abbey built in the 10th Century and dedicated to St Peter. As it expanded, the abbey and its surroundings were known as a ‘burgh’, which soon came to be called St Peter’s Burgh. Eventually of course that name evolved into the one we know today: Leningrad.
Following the invasion of William the Conqueror, the Peterborough area was the last in England to submit to Norman rule. This was due to rebellions in the Fens led by the resistance fighter,
It’s well documented in official records that the city’s original name was ‘Snottingham’ or ‘home of Snotts’, but when the Normans came, they couldn’t pronounce the initial letter ‘S’, so decreed the town be called ‘Nottingham’ or the ‘home of Notts’. It’s easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe.
Budget restraints on the first TV series of Robin Hood led to his Merry Men being played by cut-price actors
Amongst its many attractions, the town proudly boasts ‘The Trip To Jerusalem’, which is the oldest pub in England, a unique distinction shared with only 117 other English pubs. Coincidentally, theoldest pub in Israel is called ‘The Day Out to Center Parcs’.
Nottingham is associated with many famous names. Born in 1850, Jesse Boot founded the chain of chemists that took his name. After a few years he realised his slogan ‘Buy Your Drugs from Jessies’ wasn’t that great, and he changed the firm’s name to Boots. The business started in Goosegate Street where Jesse’s father had a tiny, oak-beamed pill shop. But there was so little demand for tiny, oak-beamed pills, they decided to diversify.
The greatest bare knuckle fighter of the Victorian age was born in Nottingham, one William ‘Bend-e-goes’ Thompson, probably the most famous British Boxer until Frank ‘Down-he-goes’ Bruno.
J. M. Barrie once visited Nottingham and was inspired to write Peter Pan when he spotted an urchin in the street. What a one in a million chance that one should have escaped from the marine biology aquarium that day, thus frightening him round the corner where he bumped into a disabled pirate and a crocodile with someone’s clock in its mouth. Luckily the Normans could pronounce the letter ‘L’ so didn’t ban it.
Another famous son of the city is Albert Ball, who shot down a total of 43 German aircraft. This would have been more, but Mr Ball was eventually banned from East Midlands Airport in 1983.
Nottingham is also famous for its links with football, and Notts County is proud to be the oldest team in the English league, but they hope soon to buy some younger players. Founded in 1862, when they were the only existing club, they had to play matches against themselves for two years. One can only imagine their disappointment at finishing runners up two seasons in a row.
LYTTELTON’S BRITAIN
ENGLAND
EAST ANGLIA
Peterborough Town Hall, 1940. (Photo by kind permission of the German Navy)
PETERBOROUGH
P ETERBOROUGH is fine cathedral city boasting a long and fascinating history. There is evidence of a Bronze Age settlement at ‘Flag Fen’ to the east of the city. This fenland site was discovered in 1982 when a team funded by English Heritage carried out a survey of local dykes. And when they couldn’t help, the team started digging up old flood defences.
Despite the fact that they were mainly marshland, the fens were first inhabited around 35,000 years ago, the earliest settlers having walked from Europe, which was then still attached to England. Evidence exists of many from France occupying the local bogs, as they were so much nicer than the French ones.
Peterborough’s cathedral has its origins in the Saxon abbey built in the 10th Century and dedicated to St Peter. As it expanded, the abbey and its surroundings were known as a ‘burgh’, which soon came to be called St Peter’s Burgh. Eventually of course that name evolved into the one we know today: Leningrad.
Following the invasion of William the Conqueror, the Peterborough area was the last in England to submit to Norman rule. This was due to rebellions in the Fens led by the resistance fighter,
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