Robin Hood Variety Theatre (Brierley Hill)

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The Robin Hood, home to the Robin Hood Variety Theatre, was situated on the west side of Pedmore Road (A4036; Merry Hill).

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood, Merry Hill, where the variety theatre was housed / Brian Clift, 1 June 1975; Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-05.

The now demolished Robin Hood pub in Brierley Hill was home to the Robin Hood Variety Theatre during the tenure of a Ray Hingley sometime after the 1960s. 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.

Sources

• Flickr: Robin Hood (demolished).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1884; surveyed 1881–82)
• 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1920; rev. 1914)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1947; rev. 1939)
• 6" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.NE (1887; surveyed 1881–82)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1904; rev. 1901) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1904; rev. 1901)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI (1921; rev. 1914)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1921; rev. 1914)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

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