I understand a lot of locals are intending to celebrate with a new awning.
I understand a lot of locals are intending to celebrate with a new awning.
I might have mentioned this before but once upon a time Rotherham was an important seat of learning along with Oxford and Cambridge.
Then Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and that was the end of that.
Avondale, you may well be right. I'm just going on what we were told at school as kids. I've been doing some more research and it appears Mary Queen of Scots actually did spend some time in Rotherham as you will read from the paragraphs below.
One of the most famous stories about the chapel concerns the visit of Mary Queen of Scots to Rotherham in January, 1569. For many years a prisoner of Elizabeth I, Mary’s captivity became entangled with the time, many years later, when the chapel served as the town gaol. Legend suggests that she was imprisoned here, but the evidence tells us that she was held at a house on the corner of High Street and Wellgate.
Furthermore, she apparently spent quite some time in the Manor House at Sheffield, before her later arrest and taking to the capital to be executed.
MQoS had already been taken into captivity before her time at the Manor Lodge Sheffield, it was in fact a comfortable prison during the time it took for Queen Elizabeth to be persuaded by her advisors that letting her live was a credible threat to Elizabeth’s reign and execution of Mary was the only way to protect her own position as monarch.
It was as farcical as a Carry On film apparently. Cleaved the back of he head with the first swing, got the neck but not all of it with the second and had to finish it off with a butcher's knife. Then he lifted the head by the hair to show the crowd only to be left with a handful of red haired wig as the balding/grey haired head fell to the ground. No reports of whether he then kicked it around a bit or played keepy up.