Blessed is the one who considers the poor . In the day of trouble, he delivers him.
Psalm 41: 1
A town that once thrived. It provided trees for ships, then coal and a thriving hosiery industry. Now there are factory shops and outlets well out of town and many of the businesses are for hire or rent in a town with many historic buildings.
Mansfield was the chief town of Sherwood Forest, the legendry base for Robin Hood, the medieval robber and popular hero. His forest Court was held in Moot Hall.
You can see the blue door of
Moot Hall.
There is a short loan’s office (money lenders office) and a convenience store in the place where Robin Hood is said to have met.
The locals told me not to be excited about the market because goods were being sold in outlets and produce wasn’t abundant.
One lady said: ” Have you noticed we don’t even have a butchers!”
Let’s look at the town.
There is an interesting story about this statue.
In 2007, a 72-year-old artist,
David A Annand from Dundee , Scotland, said this about his work. ” The piece is officially known as ‘ Amphitheatre’ . It represents the town with many regeneration projects .”
Others have said it is a sculpture of a tie- wearing man who is supposed to be a council officer struggling with the regeneration of the town ( or keeping up with the crumbling infrastructure). This is depicted by a man trying to hold up an amphitheatre where the people can sit.
Speaking to several people about their town, they say they hope it will get better . They mentioned that the area had survived the loss of trees , 400 oaks each possibly 400 years old to build a single 100 gun ship at the time of Horatio Nelson , then the closing of the coal mines in present history and then the question is how will they survive now? The town seems poor.
Two miles north of Mansfield, hard red and white sandstone was quarried for the building of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster London. Let us look at some of the buildings in the town.
Today has left me with more questions, but I prefer to leave you with a children’s story. Listen, if you like. Press on Robin Hood- Robin’s story – read along.
Thank you for taking an interest in this post.
Sandy 🙂
Economy is not well at this stage hey? Let’s hope it gets better soon Sandy. Interesting post. Thank you. I do love the market square. It does look like you are somewhere in Europe
You have so much history to witness right in your backyard.
Yes, we do. Thank you.
I guess we can hope things get better poppielinde.
Great discoveries on your explorations Sandy. History teaches us so much and while we can’t go back and change the past, we can learn from it. 🙏🏾❤️
Yes, I have quite a few questions but no answers. How will we learn? Not expecting an answer.
Hmmm. The Holy Spirit has many answers that we can’t find on our own. 😊❤️