|
Locksley
{{Disambiguation, geo, surname ...
Locksley may refer to: * Locksley, Nottinghamshire, fictional home of English folk hero Robin Hood * Locksley (band), an American rock band * Locksley, New South Wales, Australia * Locksley, Victoria, Australia * Locksley railway station, Victoria, a closed station in Locksley, Victoria, Australia * Locksley station (Pennsylvania), a railroad station in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania, USA * Locksley Christian School, the former name of Regents Academy based in Lincolnshire, England * ''Locksley Hall'', an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem * Mike Locksley (born 1969), American football coach See also * Loxley (other) Loxley may refer to: Places * Loxley, Alabama, a town in the United States * Loxley, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Loxley, South Yorkshire, a village and a suburb of the city of Sheffield, England, traditionally the birthplace of Robin Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Locksley
Michael Anthony Locksley (born December 25, 1969) is an American college football coach. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Maryland, a position he has held since 2019. After serving as an assistant coach for several college football squads, he became the head football coach at the University of New Mexico in 2009, returning to Maryland as an offensive coordinator after his dismissal from New Mexico in 2011. In 2015, Locksley was named the interim head coach at Maryland after Randy Edsall was relieved of his duties. Locksley did not return to Maryland after that season, joining the University of Alabama as an offensive analyst. Locksley was promoted to offensive coordinator for the 2018 season, and that year received the Broyles Award, given to the nation's top assistant coach. Locksley returned to Maryland in December 2018 as head coach, following the firing of D. J. Durkin. Early life Locksley grew up in inner-city Washington D.C., and attended Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley (band)
Locksley is an indie four-piece pop rock/power pop band from Madison, Wisconsin. They are self-released on their own Feature Records label. Their songwriting is heavily influenced by early British Invasion bands with an instrumental style based more on early American punk bands and modern garage rock groups. The band describe their sound as doo-wop punk. Beginnings, ''Don't Make Me Wait'' (2003–2009) Locksley was formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 2003 by Jesse Laz, Sam Bair, Kai Kennedy and Aaron Collins. They were students at Madison West High School. The band relocated to New York shortly after forming. Their first show was September 10, 2003, at the CBGB Gallery. They recorded a CD of demos in their apartment called ''Safely From the City'', which they self-released in the fall of 2004. Only 1000 copies were ever printed. In 2005 Locksley released a five-song, self-titled EP. Several tracks off ''Locksley'' were licensed for commercials, including "Don't Make Me Wait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley, Victoria
Locksley is a locality in northern Victoria, Australia. The locality is located on the Longwood - Avenel Road (former Hume Highway in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area, from the state capital, Melbourne). Locksley and the surrounding area have a population of 110. Locksley was originally called Burnt Creek and takes its name from Tennyson's Poem 'Locksley Hall'. History Locksley was initially part of Henry Kent Hughes' Avenel pastoral station, taken up in the 1830s and early settlement occurred along Burnt Creek and the hills of Teneriffe. A Cobb & Co Cobb & Co was the name used by several independent Australian coach businesses. The first company to use 'Cobb & Co' was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners. The name grew to great prominence in the late 19th century, ... coach service along the Sydney to Melbourne road was established with a horse changing station at Barlow's Lagoon, about a mile from Locksley. The Locksley railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley Hall
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of ''Poems''. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits. According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat. Poetic form "Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated; moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley Station (Pennsylvania)
Locksley station is a disused railroad station in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It previously served the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and later SEPTA Regional Rail's R3 West Chester Line. SEPTA closed the station in 1986. In 1997, this portion of the line was reopened by the West Chester Railroad heritage railway for weekend excursions; the company restored the Locksley station building. History Pennsylvania Railroad established Locksley station on May 24, 1890, based on a petition from the residents of the locality. The name, according to a 1901 newspaper article, did not originate from the area, but was chosen by the superintendent of that division of the railroad from a volume of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. SEPTA later took over the station as part of the R3 West Chester Line. SEPTA discontinued regular passenger service in September 1986, due to deteriorating track conditions and Chester County's desire to expand facilities at Exton station on SEPT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley, New South Wales
Locksley is a locality in the central tablelands region of New South Wales Australia, previously called Dirty Swamp. It is located on the Main Western railway line The Main Western Railway (or Great Western Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains (Australia), Blue Mountains, and Central West, New South Wales, Central West regions. It is long, of which .... A now-closed railway station opened in 1872. History The Dirty Swamp railway station was located nineteen miles beyond Rydal and was opened for passenger traffic on 22 April 1872. At that stage it was the end of the line, but it was expected the line would be extended through to Kelso “in the course of a few months”. The Rydal to Dirty Swamp line was constructed under contract by Messrs. Blunt and Williams. The name of the Dirty Swamp Post Office was changed to Locksley Post Office from 15 February 1880. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley Railway Station, Victoria
Locksley is a closed railway station on the North East railway that served the township of Locksley, Victoria, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... Opening on 18 October 1882 as Burnt Creek Wood Siding, it was renamed Burnt Creek in 1883, and Locksley in 1904. Initially a siding surrounded by sawmills, it was not opened to public goods traffic until 1883, with a passenger platform also added. In 1885, a signal box was provided, in 1887 a new passenger platform was erected, and a goods shed was built in 1890, located on down side. In 1898, the station building was destroyed by fire, with a replacement building built within the following year. The station differed to others on the section of line, having the platform fronting onto the mainline, instead of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regents Academy
Regents Academy was an independent school based in Manby, Lincolnshire, England. The school was founded in 1992 by Amanda Franklin and her husband, Stephen Franklin, a pastor in a local church. The school admitted both male and female pupils from ages 3 to 19. The school closed in 2017. History The original site for the school was in the Franklins' home, Locksley Hall, North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. The school moved to new premises in Manby, Manby Park, Lincolnshire in 1995. Manby Park is a business park on the site of RAF Manby, a former RAF base. In November 2004 the school expanded, opening a dedicated IT centre in Bowen house, a building next door to the main school. The School later changed name from Locksley Christian School. Mandy Franklin and the staff of Locksley Christian School created an inclusive environment for staff, students and families in the East Lindsey District. Due to the area being predominantly filled with low-income households, Locksley Christian Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retellings he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff of Nottingham (position), Sheriff. In the oldest known versions, he is instead a member of the yeoman class. He is traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green. Today, he is most closely associated with his stance of "redistribution of income and wealth, robbing the rich to give to the poor". There exists no canonical version of the Robin Hood mythos, which has resulted in different creators imbuing their adaptations with different messages over the centuries. Adaptations have often vacillated between a libertarian version of Robin Hood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
