Edwinstowe, Major Oak, Sherwood Forest c.1955
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Memories of Edwinstowe, Major Oak, Sherwood Forest c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Edwinstowe, Major Oak, Sherwood Forest c.1955

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My wife, Brenda, and I have fond memories of the Major Oak. On 7th November 1959 I drove in thick fog to Sherwood Forest and found that the sun was shining there. I led Brenda into the hollow trunk of the tree (access was unrestricted at that time) and proposed to her... she accepted. There cannot be many girls who have been proposed to inside a tree!