Robin Hood (Penzance)

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The Market Place in Penzance. Is this where the Corpus Christi fair is held?

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Fairground, Penzance a.k.a. The Fair, Dame Laura Knight, 1916 / Sotheby's – Eurpean Art (2017).]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-16.

Danish seaman and travel writer Knud Andersen visited the Corpus Christi fair at Penzance in 1935 (c. June 20), noting among the various rides and attractions an air gun named Robin Hood in one of the shooting galleries. For date etc., see the page 1936 - Andersen, Knud - High Tide at Dover (7). The Corpus Christi fair is still held. The coordinates in the infobox and indicated on the Google map are those of the Market Place. I am not sure if the fair is in fact held there. Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

Centered on Penzance.

• 6" O.S. map Cornwall LXXIV.NW (1887; surveyed 1876-77)
• 6" O.S. map Cornwall LXXIV.NW (1909; rev. 1906)
• 6" O.S. map Cornwall LXXIV.NW (1909; rev. 1906) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cornwall LXXIV.NW (1939; rev. 1936)
• 6" O.S. map Cornwall LXXIV.NW (1945; rev. 1938).

Background

• Calendar-13.com: 1935
• Penzance Town Council: Town Charter Information
• Wikipedia: Corpus Christi (feast)
• Wikipedia: Knud Andersen (forfatter) (in Danish)
• Wikipedia: Penzance.

Notes

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  The Fairground, Penzance a.k.a. The Fair, Dame Laura Knight, 1916 / Sotheby's – Eurpean Art (2017).

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  The Corpus Christi fair at Penzance, 1969 / Picture Penzance: Penzance fair, posted by 'pzpirate'.