Talk:Robin Hood's Bay

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Contents 1 Railway 2 Damon the Monk 3 Robin Hood's Bay family history 4 Town or Village

[edit] Railway

There is a model railway, called Bramblewick,based on the local practice for the former station at Robin Hood's bay, which was on the now closed Scarborough to Whitby line. The station was the site of a Camping coach in 1957. Signed about 2 years later by Britmax 21:27, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Damon the Monk

User:EnerJolt made this edit, which attributes the name to a legend about Robin fighting a pirate name Damon the Monk. We'll need more evidence if we are going to include that as any more than a vague conjecture. The only result from Googling "Damon the Monk" was this - a book by one Henry Gilbert written sometime around 1912. What his sources were and how faithful he was to original legends I have no idea. --Spondoolicks 22:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is very superfical Try http://www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/html/local_history.htm when you start searching. I don't think it has much iabout the alum trade but it has a lot of other information including trustworthy material about the name. (incidentally, there is a mid-sixteenth century record of its name as 'Robyn Huddes Bay'. Robin Hood had been a mythcal folk hero for a couple of hundred years by then. see Adrian Rooms book ISBN 0 7475 0170 X 82.47.176.254 10:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)mikeL

[edit] Robin Hood's Bay family history

STORM AND COMPANY OF ROBIN HOOD'S BAY Stormrhb 18:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Town or Village

The article refers to RHB as a town, but none of the locals ever call it a town, has anyone got any evidence to comfirm its status one way or the other? Also aren't the bottom few items (Wireless access etc) blatent advertising in what is supposed to be an encyclopedia? 84.68.216.79 20:13, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm a local, and whether i call it a town or village depends more on who i'm talking to, or on the context. I'm also the techie for the wireless system - the IP address that posted that bit covers our entire system, so a customer of ours must have added it - it can be removed if necessary, or maybe made less like an advert - more informatve. 84.12.135.112 04:38, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Historically, it was referred to alternatively as Baytown, a name which lives on in the Baytown Players. Although it may not seem large enough today, it was once of more commercial significance than Whitby. Perhaps it would be better if the article referred to it as a village but also gave the alternatively name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.134.69 (talk) 20:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)