Will Scarlet photo album.

 

DATES (top to bottom): 1938, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952.

Robin Hood photo album.

 

DATES (top to bottom): 1922, 1946 (his son), 1946 (old Robin), 1950, 1951, 1958 (his daughter).

Maid Marian photo album.

 

DATES (top to bottom): 1984, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1938, 1922.

Little John photo album.

 

DATES (top to bottom): 1958, 1951, 1950, 1948, 1946, 1938

Friar Tuck photo album.

 

DATES (top to bottom): 1938, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954.

Sheriff of Nottingham photo album.

 

DATES (bottom to top): 1922, 1938, 1951, 1952, 1960, & 1991.

Robin Hood Statues: 04 Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre.

 

This Robin Hood statue has been moved around Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre several times as the old site was removed and a new one built. Nobody I have spoken to has been able to give me the name of the artist involved. I shall update these details as and when.

Below: Also situated at Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre this statue depicted the meeting of Robin Hood and Little John over the river. As with the above statue it changed its location with the closure of the original site and the building of a new one. Once again I have been unable to trace an artist’s name. Pictured here in December 2024, the statue and its surroundings seem in a poor state. One hopes this will be rectified. For more Robin Hood Statues see list on sidebar..

Below: Not a statue. But I couldn't resist posting this picture of the full set of Kelloggs models from 1960.

Nottingham Castle in Robin Hood Movies, 01.

 These pictures show how Nottingham Castle was depicted in Robin Hood movies across the decades. Not all of them were specifically about Nottingham, but the castle was always where the “bad guys” lived.

Above: “Robin Hood”, 1922. Below: “Adventures of Robin Hood”, 1938.

Above: “Bandit of Sherwood Forest”, 1946. Below: “Prince of Thieves”, 1948.

Above: “Rogues of Sherwood Forest”, 1950. Below: “Tales of Sherwood Forest”, 1951.

Above: "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men", 1952. Below: "The Men of Sherwood Forest", 1954.

Robin Hood at the Movies: 10 "The Son of Robin Hood", (1958).

 

Robin Hood has been dead for ten years. His son, Deering Hood, is living in Spain. Duke Del Roches is plotting to take the thrown. Baron Dorchester informs the aging men of Sherwood that Deering is coming back to England to stop Del Roches’ plan. Someone has informed Del Roches of their meeting. Their hut is surrounded, Dorchester is arrested, and Will Scarlet is killed.

The man assumed to be Deering Hood rows himself ashore in Liverpool. Once again Del Roches troops have been informed and are waiting. A swordfight ensues, during which he is suddenly assisted by a stranger who is knocked out during the fight. He carries the stranger to an inn, not realising that the body he is carrying is a girl. Little John visits, thinking the girl must be Deering Hood’s wife. However, it soon transpires that girl is actually Deering Hood, daughter of Robin Hood.

Little John takes her to Sherwood Forest. They are attacked and she proves herself a capable fighter. But they keep her sex a secret, and let the man first thought to be Deering, use her name. That man, along with herself, then visit Del Roches to learn more of his plans. He also spends the night with another Lady, killing her husband in a subsequent dual. Deering tells him she understands about “sins of the flesh” but is obviously jealous. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more complicated, the man ends up in a prison cell next to Dorchester, and reveals himself to be Dorchester’s brother, Jamie. Not long now until the swordfight finale kicks in.

There are some nice ideas in the movie: The tunnel under the castle (there are many in real life Nottingham), the Prioress informer, and the sight of a bald Alan A Dale on the torture ramp. June Laverick, as Deering Hood, Robin Hood’s daughter, is more deserving of the lead role than anyone else in the cast. A pity it wasn’t promoted that way.