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Taken from Sleepy Hollow while eating Funnel Cake.
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November 22, 2008
What a contrast there is between the house and the garden of Powis Castle at Welshpool in the Welsh borders. The house is a vault of paintings, furniture etc extracted one way or another from half of Wales, it seems, and then from a substantial portion of India by the Clive family. To me it seemed dead, dead, dead.
The garden, however, is stupendous, set on a steep slope and terraces below the castle so that it collects sunlight for most of the day.
According to Wikipedia:-
'Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
It is infamous for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives had collected them during their service with the British East India Company.
The castle has also been known as Castell Coch, Castell Pool, Castell Pola, Castell Pole, Castell Trallwng, Red Castle, Redde Castle and Castel Cough.
The seat of the Earl of Powis, the castle is known for its extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust.
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) visited the castle as a child when her mother took her to tour England and Wales in 1832.'
Harlech Castle, located in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, is a medieval fortification, constructed atop a spur of rock close to the Irish Sea. It was built by Edward I during his invasion of Wales between 1282 and 1289 at the substantial cost of £8,190. Over the next few centuries, the castle played an important part in several wars, withstanding the siege of Madog ap Llywelyn between 1294–95, but falling to Owain Glyndŵr in 1404. It then became Glyndŵr's residence and military headquarters for the remainder of the uprising until being recaptured by English forces in 1409. During the 15th century Wars of the Roses, Harlech was held by the Lancastrians for seven years, before Yorkist troops forced its surrender in 1468, a siege memorialised in the song Men of Harlech. Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies. In the 21st century the ruined castle is managed by Cadw as a tourist attraction.
Why do castles need dragons and thunderstorms? Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Castles are big and boring and lonely, and they need some excitement and company. Dragons are perfect for that. They can fly around and breathe fire and scare away any unwanted visitors. They can also keep the castle warm and cozy with their body heat. And thunderstorms are just the cherry on top. They add some drama and mystery to the castle, and they make the dragons feel more at home. Plus, they are great for lighting up the night sky and creating a romantic mood. So there you have it. Castles need dragons and thunderstorms because they make life more fun and interesting.
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Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland and is built on a dolerite outcrop. It is a Grade I listed building. The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie. After passing between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons three times, the fort came under Anglo-Saxon control in 590. The fort was destroyed by Vikings in 993, and the Normans later built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. After a revolt in 1095 supported by the castle's owner, it became the property of the English monarch. In the 17th century, financial difficulties led to the castle deteriorating, but it was restored by various owners during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was finally bought by the Victorian era industrialist William Armstrong, who completed its restoration. The castle still belongs to the Armstrong family and is open to the public.
Photography is not allowed inside the castle (my apologies), but I managed to snap a few shots of the richly decorated rooms.
Castle Cinema, Homerton. A very early cinema, dating from 1913, which closed 1958 but made a return to films in 2016. The building was sub-divided horizontally in 1994 with a bingo hall on the ground floor and snooker on the upper, however much of the original plasterwork survived. The bingo operation is now a supermarket, but the snooker hall was converted into a burger bar, and then a further conversion into a bar and restuarant in the centre, an 80 seat cinema at the former screen end, and a luxury 27 seat cinema in the former projection suite.
London Borough of Hackney, London, England - Castle Cinema, Brooksbys Walk, Homerton.
June 2019
Generation one of my castle project. Built with panels and BURPs and very little details. The side walls are foldable.
Castle Menzies is the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies, it is located a little to the west of the small village of Weem near Aberfeldy in the Highlands of Perthshirs Scotland.
The sixteenth century Castle restored by the Menzies Clan Society, was the seat of the Chiefs of Clan Menzies for over 400 years.
The Castle was involved in the turbulant history of the Highlands, Bonnie Prince Charlie the Stuart Pretender to the throne rested for two nights in the Castle on his way to the battle of Culloden in 1746.
In 1869 John N. Roberts, a civil war veteran, and his wife Emily moved from Ohio to Kansas to establish their business and family in Lawrence. Robert's built his fortune by designing and manufacturing containers, and distinguished himself in business, real estate, politics, and leadership. The Robert's completed the construction of their new home, known as the "Castle", in 1894. The architecture of the Castle is Victorian Romanesque revival and the fine stone work, as well as its tower, hearkens back to the castles of Scotland. The Roberts family was insistent on hiring noted architect John Haskell to design the structure and Joel Gustafson to act as master stone mason. A young Englishman, Mr. Sidney Endacott, who was visiting his brother in Lawrence for the summer, was hired by General Roberts to do the extensive wood carvings in the home which included the mantles of all five fireplaces and the and the breakfront in the dining room.
Amberley Castle is in the village of Amberley, West Sussex. It is a Grade I listed building.
It was erected as a 12th-century manor house and fortified in 1377. It then had a stonework enclosure with high curtain walls, towers, a hall and a gateway and was used as a fortress for the bishops of Chichester.
It has now been much modified and is in use as a hotel.
The Manor House Hotel in Castle Combe - the house has very early origins but is mostly Victorian with Italianate gardens. HDR shot developed in Lightroom.
Schloss Klaus / Castle Klaus - Stausee Klaus / Reservoir Lake Klaus - Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn - Die Steyr / Steyr-River - Pyhrn-Priel-Region - Oberösterreich / Upper Austria - Österreich / Austria
Alnwick Castle is the modest little family pad of the fabulously wealthy Duke of Northumberland. It’s a huge place and a hefty £23 to visit, cashing in on its Harry Potter connections as it was used as a film set. The castle was founded by the Normans and rebuilt throughout the medieval period by the Percy family, dukes of Northumberland. The medieval Percys (including Sir Henry Percy aka Hotspur) were a thoroughly disreputable bunch of backstabbing thieves, murders and opportunists who sided with whoever they currently thought was going to win during the Wars of the Roses. The interior was completely renovated in the 1850s in a spectacularly over-the-top Italian Renaissance style - there are six Canalettos and some priceless Louis XIV (Sun King) furniture - they're not short of a bob or two! The castle also houses the regimental museum of the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Not the most interesting view of Eilean Donan ever recorded, but then 19th century engravers only had a pile of stones to work with, while 20th and 21st century photographers have the reconstructed castle with which to create the perfect photograph!
Eilean Donan was a MacKenzie property and when the MacRaes migrated to Kintail in the 14th century, they assumed the role of 'protectors' of the MacKenzies and then Constables of Eilean Donan from 1511. In 1539 the castle was attacked by a force of 50 Macleod galleys led by Donald 'Gruamach' (The Gloomy!) Macdonald of Sleat, in support of his claim to the Lordship of the Isles, but the battle came to a stop when Donald was shot and killed by an arrow fired from the castle by Duncan Macrae (well, Duncan claims it was his arrow anyway!).
In the summer of 1719 Eilean Donan featured in “The Little Rising”, the Jacobites using it as their supply base. Three hundred Spanish troops (many more had been hoped for) were landed and along with about 700 Scots, set off by bus for Inverness. (OK then, no bus!) They only got a few miles up Glen Shiel before running into a Hanovarian army coming the other way. The resulting battle was inconclusive, but it was the end of the rebellion. Meanwhile the government (you shouldn't call them 'English'!) warships Worcester, Enterprise, and Flamborough bombarded Eilean Donan, and then sent a party ashore to blow up the remains with the gunpowder the Jacobites had stored inside.
Almost 200 years later the castle was bought by John Macrae-Gilstrap, who rebuilt the castle in the form you see it today, which is reasonably close to its original appearance, except of course for the bridge - a modern convenience made necessary by the demise of the local galley service!
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh. Although Castle Howard was built near the site of the ruined Henderskelfe Castle, it is not a true castle, but this term is often used for English country houses constructed after the castle-building era (c.1500) and not intended for a military function.
Castle Howard has been the home of part of the Howard family for more than 300 years. It is familiar to television and movie audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema.
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Clun Castle is a ruined castle in the small town of Clun, Shropshire. Clun Castle was established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the invasion and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system. Today the castle is classed as a Grade I listed building and as a Scheduled Monument. It is owned by the Duke of Norfolk, who also holds the title of Baron Clun, and is managed by English Heritage.
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Newark Castle is a well-preserved castle sited on the south shore of the estuary of the River Clyde in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, where the firth gradually narrows from the Firth of Clyde and navigation upriver is made difficult by shifting sandbanks. For centuries this location was used to offload seagoing ships, and led to the growth of Port Glasgow close to the castle on either side and to the south. When dredging techniques made the Clyde navigable as far as Glasgow the port became a shipbuilding centre, and the castle was surrounded by shipyards. Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last shipyard on the lower Clyde, stands close to the west of the castle, but the shipyards to the east were removed around the 1980s and new landscaped areas formed to the east of Newark Castle, opening up scenic views of the castle and across the Clyde from a new bypass road.
Day trip to Heidelberg from Mannheim.
Baroque-style old town and Gothic-Renaissance castle.
For those of you who are Big Bang Theory fans, Heidelberg University is also where "Sheldon Cooper" worked as a professor. "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" S01E11 (lol)
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A sand castle stands guard over the Lake Michigan beach. Taken in front of our cottage one mile north of Pentwater, Michigan. Looking south you can see the Pentwater pier over the top of the sand castle.
Construction began on Scotty's Castle in 1922, and cost between $1.5 and $2.5 million. Prospector, performer, and con man Walter Scott born in Cynthiana, Kentucky, also known as âDeath Valley Scotty,â convinced Chicago millionaire Albert Mussey Johnson to invest in his gold mine in the Death Valley area. Though initially angered when the mine turned out to be fraudulent, Johnson was fascinated with the colorful Scott and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. By 1937, Johnson had acquired more than 1,500 acres (610 ha) in Grapevine Canyon, where the ranch is located.
After Johnson and his wife made several trips to the region, and his health improved, construction began. It was Mrs. Johnson's idea to build something comfortable for their vacations in the area, and the villa eventually became a winter home.
The Johnsons hired Martin de Dubovay as the architect, Mat Roy Thompson as the engineer and head of construction, and Charles Alexander MacNeilledge as the designer.[1]
Unknown to the Johnsons, the initial survey was incorrect, and the land they built Death Valley Ranch on was actually government land; their land was further up Grapevine Canyon. Construction halted as they resolved this mistake, but before it could resume, the stock market crashed in 1929, making it difficult for Johnson to finish construction. Having lost a considerable amount of money, the Johnsons used the Death Valley Ranch to produce income by letting rooms out, upon the suggestion of Scott. The Johnsons died without heirs and had hoped that the National Park Service would purchase the property, and in 1970, the National Park Service purchased the villa for $850,000 from the Gospel Foundation (the socially-oriented charity Johnson founded in 1946), to which the Johnsons had left the property.[3]
Walter Scott, who was taken care of by the Gospel Foundation after Johnson's passing, died in 1954 and was buried on the hill overlooking Scotty's Castle next to a beloved dog. Source:
Tomb of of the Unett famiiy without any inscription c1660 - Possibly Francis Unett 1612- 1656 & wife Sara Nicholetts 1659 whose wall monument is nearby, now over the 19c doorway to the vestry on the same wall www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Q1mT32 At some point the tomb has been made to fit round and above the altar steps., the younger daughters standing on higher ground flic.kr/p/2ibqGVf . Was the tomb more to the west originally under the wall monument ??
Francis, High Sheriff of the County, was the only son & heir William Unett 1590-1624 & 2nd wife Anne 1636 daughter of Ambrose Elton of Ledbury by Anne flic.kr/p/2gkayro daughter of Edward Aston and Ann flic.kr/p/2cwvejC daughter of Thomas Lucy and Joyce Acton at Charlecote flic.kr/p/2bdc3LZ (Anne was the grand daughter of Anthony Elton & Alice Scudamore)
A wall memorial to them nearby is inscribed "Here llyeth ye body of Francis Unett esq, ye sonne of William Unett esq , who married Sara Nicholetts daughter of William Nicholetts of Hopton Sollars esq by whome hee had issue 8 sonnes Francis, Richard, John, William, Nicholetts, Thomas & Thomas & Edward & 3 daughters Sara, Anna & Rebecca . Hee departed ys life on ye 5 day of June Anno Dom 1656 aged 44 .................. Allso here lyeth the body of Sara the wife of Francis Unett esq who departed ys life in the true faith of Christ April the 15th Anno Dom 1659 " www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/xUP259
Children
1. Francis
2.Richard
3.John m Frances co-heiress daughter of Henry Lingen 1662 of Sutton & Stoke Edith by Alice daughter of Sir Walter Pye of the Mynde & Much Dewchurch www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5D26SH by Joan www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/fiJJ99 3rd daughter of William Rudhall & Margaret Croft of Ross on Wye www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/TorJbR (Frances was heiress of Sutton Freen & Freens Court)
4. William
5. Nicholetts
6. Thomas (died young)
7. Thomas
8. Edward
1. Sarah
2. Anne
3. Rebecca
They lived at the Birch End in the village
His mother Anne m2 1624 Thomas Cocks 1599 - 1649 son of Richard Cocks 1623 of Eastnor www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/891947 having 2 sons Rev Thomas Cocks 1724 & Charles Cocks m Mary daughter of John Summers
The Unett famiy gained Castle Frome by the marriage in 1432 of John Unett with heiress Elizabeth Brace grand daughter of lord of the manor Sir William Devereux a descendant of the Lacy lords of the manor
(They are also said to be his father William Unett of 1624 and 2nd wife Anne Elton, however William & Anne are reported to have been remembered by "3 slabs near the south wall of the nave , two inscribed and one with a shield-of-arms". Allowing for 3 sons (now missing on the east end of the tomb balancing those on the west end) , the number of children matches those of Francis & Sarah, also the costumes are more mid 17c and the wall inscription to them is very near this tomb making room for the 12c window above and chancel south door ) - Church of St. Michael , Castle Frome, Herefordshire
Castle Combe is a small village in Wiltshire, England, with a population of about 350. It is renowned for its attractiveness and tranquillity, and for fine buildings including the medieval church. The 14th century market cross, erected when the privilege to hold a weekly market in Castle Combe was granted, is situated where the three principal streets converge. Some small stone steps near the cross were for horse riders to mount and dismount and close by are the remains of the buttercross. The village has twice played host to the Combe Sunday event, a music extravaganza which attracted 4,000 visitors to the village in 2006.
The 4-star Manor House Hotel in the village was built in the 14th century. It has 48 rooms and 365 acres (1.5 km2) of gardens.
The village prospered during the fifteenth century, when it belonged to Millicent, the wife of Sir Stephen Le Scrope and then of Sir John Fastolf (1380–1459), a Norfolk knight who was the effective lord of the manor for fifty years. He promoted the woollen industry, supplying his own troops and others for Henry V's war in France.
Castle Combe is the home of a motor racing venue, Castle Combe Circuit, located on the disused RAF Castle Combe airfield. It was also used as a location for the film musical Doctor Dolittle, but its frequently rainy summer climate, and the residents' irritation at the producers' arbitrary modifications of the area for shooting that was severe enough to incite attempted sabotage, frustrated production.Raymond Austin, director/writer, set the action of his book, Find Me A Spy, Catch me a Traitor in the village and at the Manor. Other productions include "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot, and the films Stardust and The Wolfman, and the 1967 motion picture version of Doctor Dolittle. Throughout September 2010, the village was used as a key filming location for Steven Spielberg's production of War Horse.
St. Andrew's church is the home of the Castle Combe Clock, one of the very few English medieval clocks still in use.
The village is near the villages of Grittleton, Ford, Nettleton, Tiddleywink, and the town of Chippenham.
Castle Combe is represented in parliament by James Gray, and in Wiltshire Council by Jane Scott, both Conservatives.
Harlech Castle, located in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, is a medieval fortification, constructed atop a spur of rock close to the Irish Sea. It was built by Edward I during his invasion of Wales between 1282 and 1289 at the substantial cost of £8,190. Over the next few centuries, the castle played an important part in several wars, withstanding the siege of Madog ap Llywelyn between 1294–95, but falling to Owain Glyndŵr in 1404. It then became Glyndŵr's residence and military headquarters for the remainder of the uprising until being recaptured by English forces in 1409. During the 15th century Wars of the Roses, Harlech was held by the Lancastrians for seven years, before Yorkist troops forced its surrender in 1468, a siege memorialised in the song Men of Harlech. Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies. In the 21st century the ruined castle is managed by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service, as a tourist attraction.
UNESCO considers Harlech to be one of "the finest examples of late 13th century and early 14th century military architecture in Europe", and it is classed as a World Heritage site. The fortification is built of local stone and concentric in design, featuring a massive gatehouse that probably once provided high-status accommodation for the castle constable and visiting dignitaries. The sea originally came much closer to Harlech than in modern times, and a water-gate and a long flight of steps leads down from the castle to the former shore, which allowed the castle to be resupplied by sea during sieges. In keeping with Edward's other castles in North Wales, the architecture of Harlech has close to links to that found in the kingdom of Savoy during the same period, an influence probably derived from the Savoy origins of the main architect, James of Saint George.