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The Robin Hood was situated at 1 Egmere Road. This grade-II listed pub is now used as a b&b.
I am the granddaughter of Letty and Fred Woodbine who were the Landlady and Landlord of The Robin Hood Inn, Little Walsingham, Norfolk Fredrick Neville Woodbine, known as Fred, became landlord in 1949. A Bullard's pub until 1960 and then owned by Watney Mann in 1967. A popular pub with a great social atmosphere organising bus trips with my other grandfather Jimmy Bunn Music would be played on piano and drums at the weekend. Letty Woodbine became landlady in 1956 when my grandfather passed away. The music continued throughout. In 1967 my father and mother took over the running of the pub. Fredrick Neville Woodbine, known as Neville and Dorothy (Dot). Live music was still popular with piano and my dad on the drums and singing. I learnt to play the guitar and at 14 me, dad and a friend on lead guitar started the a band called Variety Trio. My Uncle decided to learn bass and join us and we became Foot tapper and played at weekends and holidays and at local dances. In 1976-77 Granada Colour Production came to the Robin Hood Inn, Little Walsingham in Norfolk where my family and I at the time. The production team filmed a typical night buzzing with chatter and laughter from customers. Music played by my dad on drums, uncle on bass and our friend on lead guitar and me singing and playing rhythm guitar in the pub. The program was called Never and Always directed by Dennis Mitchell. It showed life in the Norfolk villages, the film crew spent all day recording footage of my mum, Dot and sister Jenny behind the bar, customers and our band Foot tapper playing music in the pub. My parents left the pub in approximately 1978 and the pub eventually closed in 2000
Rebecca Woodbine (September 2023)
Listed building details:
C17. Roughcast front. East end faced in new red brick. Steeply pitched black-glazed pantile roof with coped gable ends. Moulded eaves cornice; 2 storeys. Three widely spaced windows. C18 or early C19 sashes with glazing bars in exposed moulded coving. Two of ground floor windows are 3-light sashes. Modern glazed door off centre right. Brick chimney stacks at ends and centre. Ground floor east room has moulded ceiling beams. Flint and brick gable-ended wing at rear, and C19 brick addition.
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