Looking for a talk that’s a bit different?
Where in Nottingham was the mysterious statue of a man holding an umbrella, who was the man and why was he holding an umbrella!?
These and other mysteries and curiosities are revealed in this fascinating and unusual talk by Chris Weir.
Most of us have visited the Major Oak but how did that famous tree get its name? And where is there a mini-Sherwood Forest, planted with acorns from that mighty oak?
And how did hundreds of skeletons end up underneath Norton Cuckney church? Did they die in a terrible battle?
And what was Roger De Mampton, a local chaplain, getting up to when he hopped over the wall to visit the wife of John Bilby in 1389?!
Oh, and not forgetting little known information about the Robin Hood statue near Nottingham Castle, about ducks in Romano-British culture, the secrets held in a 1962 Enid Blyton diary, what happened to poor Clara Hunt in the 1880s and the ‘goings-on’ in the household of the noble George Chaworth.
And how to live to the grand-old age of 99!
And lots more……
