Meet You at the Lions — Nottingham Goes to the Movies

The Midland’s city of Nottingham, situated in the very heart of the country, although still somewhat mysteriously referred to as “the North” as in the term “it’s grim up north” by anyone south of the Watford Gap, is the somewhat little-known seventh-largest urban conurbation in the UK and owes its international name recognition, or such that it has, to two loveable rogues who took up residence and the county and are now commemorated by statues in the city.

The first, but only chronologically speaking, is the medieval folkloric outlaw Robin Hood, whose legends, replete with references to local...