Arnold, Nottinghamshire - Robin Hood & Little John pub - art postcard

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• Picture / Image:  The Robin Hood and Little John, Arnold, Nottinghamshire
• Publisher:  Home Brewery plc
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Arnold is a market town, civil parish and suburb of Nottingham, in the English ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire. It is to the north-east of the city’s boundary, and is in the local government district of Gedling Borough. It has had a market since 1968, and used to have numerous factories associated with the hosiery industry. According to data collected in 2000, the town has a population of 35,900.

Areas within Arnold include Daybrook, Woodthorpe, Redhill and Killisick.

Arnold was referred to as ‘Ernehale’ in the Domesday Book; this former name meant ‘place frequented by eagles’ or ‘the valley of eagles’.^[1][2]

‘A History of Arnold’ by Rupert King and James Russell (1913) explains that the etymology of Arnold’s name is thus:

‘Heron-hald’, meaning the corner of the forest where Herons (large birds) live. Which becomes over the centuries since 500 A.D. by ‘lazy’ pronunciation, Eron-ald, thence Ern-old and Arn-old.

Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge. These eagles would then have flown north-west in the evenings to roost in the ancient woodland area now known as Arnold. The Anglo-Saxon migrant-invaders, when they arrived along the River Trent from the Humber estuary in around 500 A.D.,would certainly have seen these 91 cm.long eagles flying north-west in the evenings and appropriately named this roosting location ‘Erne-Halh’ or ‘Erne-Haugh’, meaning ‘Eagle’s nook’ or ‘Eagle’s corner’.^{[citation needed]}

Arnold is surrounded by a circular ridge from the north-west around to the south-east and raised ground to the west. The town’s bowl-like topography may have given it the etymological feature -Halh or -Haugh.^{[citation needed]}

St Mary’s Church, of the Church of England, is believed to date from 1176.^[3] A Roman Catholic church, the Church of the Good Shepherd’s current building was built in 1964.

Arnold was a centre of the framework knitting industry in the 19th century. It was the site of the first framebreaking incidents of the Luddite riots, in March 1811, when 63 frames were smashed.^{[4][dead link]} The Luddite riots were a workers’ response to decreasing pay, standard of living and conditions of employment in the industry as a result of changing fashions decreasing demand for their style of hosiery.

1968 saw the opening of Arnold Market in the town centre. Market days are on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.^[5][6]

Arnold town centre has a diverse range of restaurants and bars and a choice of shops including supermarkets such as Sainsbury's and Asda as well as small independent businesses. As a market town, Arnold hosts a market on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.^[5][6] Construction of a new healthcare centre in central Arnold has—as of January 2014—almost been completed.

Schools in the town include: Arnold Hill Academy; Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy; Coppice Farm Primary School; Good Shepherd Primary Catholic Academy; Redhill Academy; and Richard Bonington Primary School.

Arnold is a mixed area containing both privately owned and council housing. Since the early 2000s, a number of modern housing developments have been built around the town.^{[citation needed]}

Arnold once had a railway station known as ‘Daybrook and Arnold’. It was closed along with the rest of the line on 4 April 1960. The station was located on Mansfield Road on what is now a retail park. There is still evidence of the line in the form of remnants of the embankments on Arnot Hill Park (just behind the B&Q). The Line was the Great Northern Main Line later nicknamed ‘the back route’, with trains to Gedling and Netherfield with the terminus being Nottingham Victoria. Just after those embankments a later built railway—the Nottingham Suburban—joined it and ran over Thackerays Lane on a bridge on its way to Woodthorpe Park and beyond.^[8][9]

Home Brewery

The town’s most notable landmark is probably the Home Ales building in Daybrook. Founded in 1875 by John Robinson,^[10] the brewery was famous for its Robin Hood logo on beermats. The brewery remained independent until 1986 when it (along with its 450 owned public houses) was purchased by Scottish & Newcastle for £123million. Scottish & Newcastle gradually ran down production, for example subcontracting Mild brewing to the rival Mansfield brewery, resulting in the eventual closure of the Daybrook building in 1996. Home Bitter is still brewed under contract at Everards in Leicester, although many of the public houses that used to serve it now sell Theakston’s beers instead.^{[citation needed]}

Dating from 1936, the current Home Ales building now houses county council offices. The illuminated ‘Home of the Best Ales’ sign was altered to remove the word ‘Ales’ and include the logo of Nottinghamshire County Council. The building has an unusual ‘putti frieze’ by sculptor Charles Doman along the front wall which depicts groups of cherubs involved in the brewing of beer. Three designs are repeated in an ABCABC / CBACBA pattern. The reliefs are in a 2:3 proportion and are white casts. ‘A’ depicts a drinking table; ‘B’ shows barrel-making; and ‘C’ illustrates the stirring of the brew—all allegories of the brewing process. The decorative ironwork gates are contemporaneous.^[11]

In 1950 the Home Brewery Company Ltd gave the land for Arnold’s King George’s Field, a permanent memorial to King George V and guaranteed for free public access in perpetuity for recreation. The Charity Commission held an enquiry that closed in December 2005 into restricted public access.^[12] Due to this ruling Arnold Town F.C. have relocated away from the town centre.^{[citation needed]}

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county/ country=nottinghamshire

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period=1945 - present

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