Maid Marion Club (Chapel St Leonards)

Locality
Coordinate	53.216226, 0.334904
Adm. div.	Lincolnshire
Vicinity	W side of S Road, Chapel St Leonards
Type	Establishment
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1973
A.k.a.	Maid Marrion Club; Club Tropicana

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Club Tropicana, the former Maid Marion Club, Chapel St Leonards.

Club Tropicana, the former Maid Marion Club, Chapel St Leonards. / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

Club Tropicana, across the road from the Golden Palm Resort, formerly Robin Hood Camp, in Chapel St Leonards, used to be known as the Maid Marion Club.

The change of name had happened by 2008. A gentleman who stayed at the camp as a youngster in 1973 remembers how camp owner Roy Bradley would wake up people with announcements such as "Robin Hood Camp! Maid Marrion Club! We will be playing bingo at the club this afternoon, followed by a talent competition!".

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

Club not labelled or indicated on maps.

• 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (c. 1889; surveyed c. 1888). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1888; surveyed 1888)
• 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (c. 1948; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1951; rev. 1946).

Background

• Facebook: the Club Tropicana
• Flickr: Golden Palm Arcades, Chapel St Leonards
• Wikipedia: Chapel St Leonards
• Yorkshire Post: 'Pete McKee: Celebrating the summers that felt like an eternity with new exhibition', by Lindsay Pantry (25 Mar. 2016) (zipped archive; original no longer online).

Also see

• Chapel St Leonards place-name cluster
• Places named after Maid Marian.

Notes

 Lincolnshire place-names 

 Place-names