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Wentbridge was unusual in that it had parts in three different civil parishes: the entire portion of the village to the north of the river, including the village church, was within the parish of Darrington, whilst south of the river, that part of the village on the west side of the B6474 road was within Thorpe Audlin parish, with buildings on the road's eastern side formerly in North Elmsall ...
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
Since 1928 it has stood at the junction of Archerfield Road and Booker Avenue. Prior to this, it stood 60 metres away in a field then named The Stone Hey, but was moved due to a housing development. [3] Robin Hood's Stone is rectangular and measures about 2 metres high by 0.9 metres wide by 0.4 metres thick.
The Waldheim Cemetery was established as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons, Romani, and German-speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation. The two adjacent cemeteries merged on February 28, 1969, with the combined cemetery being called Forest Home (Waldheim means "forest home" in ...
Although the inscription is probably a forgery, there may have been a grave marker on this site as early as the 16th century. John Leland, in his Collectanea (compiled in the 1530s), mentions the tradition that Robin Hood is buried near Kirklees Priory, [8] but the earliest definite reference to the presence of a gravestone is found in Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large (1569).
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
A one-day visitation was held at Rayner Funeral Home on Friday, September 2, 1955. It is said that 5,000 people attended, though accounts vary. [2] The open-casket funeral was held on September 3 at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Roughly 2,000 attendees witnessed the service inside the church with thousands more attending outside. Rev.