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Working The 4H73 09.07 Wellingborough Up Tc Gbrf To Tunstead Sdgs Gbrf The Route And Timings Were
Wellingborough Up Tc Gbrf 09.07 . 08.47 20E
Wellingborough Sig Bk6070 09.09 No Report
Wellingborough Sig Bk6065 09.19 To 09.25 No Report
Harrowden Jn 09.28 1/2 . 09.08 1/2 19E
Kettering Sth Jn 09.32 . 09.25 1/2 6E
Kettering 09.33 1/2 . 09.28 5E
Kettering North Junction 09.35 1/2 . 09.35 1/4 RT
Market Harborough 09.44 . 09.45 1/2 1L
Market Harborough Jn 09.44 . 09.45 1/2 1L
Kilby Bridge Jn 09.53 1/2 . 09.54 1/2 1L
Wigston South Jn 09.56 . 09.56 1/4 RT
Wigston North Jn 09.56 1/2 . 09.56 3/4 RT
Knighton Jn 09.58 1/2 . 09.58 RT
Leicester South Jn 10.00 . 09.59 3/4 RT
Leicester 10.00 1/2 . 10.01 3/4 1L
Leicester North Jn 10.01 . 10.02 3/4 1L
Humberstone Road 10.04 To 11.51 10.03 1/2 . 11.50 1/4 RT
Humberstone Rd Jn 11.51 1/2 . 11.51 1/4 RT
Syston 11.56 . 11.55 1/2 RT
Syston South Jn 11.56 . 11.55 1/2 RT
Syston North Jn 11.56 1/2 . 11.55 3/4 RT
Sileby 11.58 1/2 . 11.57 1/2 1E
Sileby Jn 11.59 . 11.58 1/4 RT
Mountsorrel Sdgs 12.00 1/2 . 11.58 3/4 1E
Barrow upon Soar 12.02 . 11.59 3/4 2E
Loughborough South Jn 12.06 1/2 . 12.02 1/2 3E
Loughborough 12.07 . 12.04 3/4 2E
Loughborough North Jn 12.08 . 12.07 1/4 RT
Kegworth 12.15 . 12.12 1/4 2E
East Midlands Parkway 12.17 1/2 . 12.16 1/2 1E
Ratcliffe Jn 12.18 . 12.17 RT
Trent South Jn 12.18 1/2 . 12.18 1/4 RT
Meadow Lane Jn 12.21 . 12.20 1/2 RT
Toton Jn 12.22 1/2 . 12.21 3/4 RT
Toton Centre 12.25 1/2 To 12.52 1/2 12.24 3/4 . 12.28 1/4 24E
Stapleford & Sandiacre 12.54 1/2 No Report
Trowell Jn 13.00 1/2 . 13.01 RT
Ilkeston Junction 13.01 1/2 . 13.03 1L
Ilkeston 13.03 1/2 . 13.05 1/4 1L
Langley Mill 13.12 . 13.09 1/2 2E
Codnor Park Jn 13.20 . 13.12 1/2 7E
Ironville Junction 13.20 1/2 . 13.12 3/4 7E
Alfreton 13.25 . 13.16 3/4 8E
Blackwell South Jn (Derbs) 13.26 . 13.17 3/4 8E
Morton 13.29 . 13.20 8E
Clay Cross North Jn 13.34 . 13.23 1/2 10E
Hasland 13.36 1/2 . 13.25 3/4 10E
Chesterfield South Jn 13.38 1/2 . 13.28 1/2 9E
Chesterfield 13.40 . 13.31 1/2 8E
Tapton Jn 13.40 1/2 . 13.32 1/4 8E
Dronfield 13.47 1/2 . 13.37 3/4 9E
Dore South Jn 13.51 . 13.51 3/4 RT
Dore West Jn 13.54 . 13.53 RT
Totley Tunnel East 13.56 1/2 . 13.55 1/2 RT
Grindleford 14.01 1/2 . 14.03 1L
Hathersage 14.03 1/2 No Report
Bamford 14.05 No Report
Hope (Derbyshire) 14.06 1/2 No Report
Earles Sdgs S.B. 14.07 1/2 . 14.09 1L
Earles Sidings Sig Es31 14.10 1/2 No Report
Edale 14.12 1/2 . 14.13 RT
Chinley East Jn 14.18 1/2 . 14.22 3L
Chinley South Jn 14.23 To 14.25 1/2 No Report
Chinley Signal Cy168 14.31 1/2 No Report
Peak Forest S.B. 14.37 1/2 . 14.31 6E
Great Rocks Jn 14.41 . 14.37 4E
Tunstead Sdgs Gbrf 14.47 . 14.43 4E
French postcard, no. 2009.
American actor Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile actors in today's Hollywood. He made his film debut as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). With his dark, intense eyes and highly defined cheekbones, he shot to fame as a teen idol in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). He is now best known for his many wonderful collaborations with director Tim Burton, and for his flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of Carribean franchise. He likes to play freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society. Depp has been nominated for three Oscars and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor.
John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 16 (or 15 - the sources differ), after his parents divorced. The brooding teenager fronted a series of music-garage bands, including the punk rock/New Wave band The Kids, which opened for Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, and The B-52's. When he married Lori Anne Allison (Lori A. Depp), he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to support himself and his wife during slack times in the music business. When he visited Los Angeles with his wife, he met actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting. This culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. He played a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon (1986), starring Charlie Sheen. In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher as Officer Tom Hanson, who goes on an undercover operation by posing as a student in crime-ridden Los Angeles-area high schools in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). After numerous roles in teen-oriented films, Depp spoofed the genre as 1950s teen rebel 'Cry-Baby' Wade Walker in John Waters' tongue-in-cheek Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990). The film received positive reviews from critics, but did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release. It has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name which was nominated for four Tony Awards. That year, Depp also started his great collaborations with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990) with Winona Ryder and Christopher Lee.
Following the film's success, Johnny Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in such features as Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis in this drama about a dysfunctional family. He rejoined with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994), a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. Then he played a newly-orphaned accountant in the surrealist Western Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995), and an undercover FBI agent in the fact-based crime drama Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997), opposite Al Pacino. Depp appeared as Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's trippy adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). The same year he teamed up again with Burton in Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane. With Chuck E. Weiss, Depp turned the Central Nightclub in Los Angeles, into the famous Viper Room at 8852 Sunset Blvd. The building was once owned by infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel. It's also the place where River Phoenix passed away on 31 October 1993. Depp closed down the Viper Room for two weeks after Phoenix's death and he also closed it on every 31 October until 2004. That year, he ended his ownership of the Viper room when he signed it over to Amanda Fox, the daughter of his missing partner in the club, Anthony Fox. Depp also once co-owned a restaurant/club in a former cinema in Paris called Man Ray (named after the avant-garde artist), with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and British musician Mick Hucknall.
Johnny Depp has played many different and often bigger-than-life characters in his career. He played a fact-based one, Insp. Fred Abberline in From Hell (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, 2001). He stole the show in the finale to Robert Rodriguez's Mariachi trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), opposite Antonio Banderas. In that same year he starred in the marvelous family blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off: the charming, conniving and roguish Capt. Jack Sparrow. He based Sparrow on rock legend Keith Richards and the Looney Tunes character, Pepe Le Pew. The film's enormous success included an Oscar nomination for Depp. Depp was again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as kind-hearted Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie, who penned the children's classic Peter Pan, in Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 2004), with Kate Winslet. He appeared as the notorious second Earl of Rochester in the British film, The Libertine (Lawrence Dunmore, 2004) opposite John Malkovich. Depp collaborated again with Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005), and the stop-motion animation Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Later followed Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton, 2007), Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) and Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 2012). Depp reprised the role of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates sequels Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006), At World's End (Gore Verbinski, 2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011), which were again major box office successes.
Off-screen, Johnny Depp has dated several female celebrities, and has been engaged to Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983, but divorced her in 1985. Depp has two children with French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis: Lily-Rose Melody (1999) and Jack (2002). He married actress/producer Amber Heard in 2015. Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in May, 2016. She was granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order against Depp in relation to a physical altercation between the couple, which resulted in Heard filing for divorce in the first place. Heard was granted $7 million as part of the former couple's divorce, which was finalised in 2017. Depp has struggled with alcoholism and addiction for much of his life. Depp has stated that he began smoking at age 12 and began using alcohol and drugs shortly thereafter. In July 2018, Depp was sued for allegedly punching a crew member twice in the ribs during a foul-mouthed tirade. Court documents stated that the actor "reeked of alcohol" and took drugs on set. According to IMDb, Johnny Depp resides in France, Los Angeles, and an island he owns in the Bahamas. He divides his time in France between Meudon, a suburb of Paris and a villa in Plan-de-la-Tour, an hour outside of St Tropez in Southern France. He also purchased Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home. Depp is intensely protective of his private life. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) is one of the few televised interviews he's granted. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Despite this massive success (or maybe as a result), Depp's career suffered a downswing after a string of critical and commercial flops. Films like The Tourist (opposite Angelina Jolie), Dark Shadows (a rare misstep with Tim Burton) and The Lone Ranger failed to connect with audiences and critics alike and left many to wonder when Depp's career would recover." It did. In recent years, Depp reprised the role of the Mad Hatter in Alice Through the Looking Glass (James Bobin, 2016), reprised his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 2017), and he was seen in the blockbuster Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (David Yates, 2018), written by J. K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne. Depp is set to return as Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts film, which is scheduled for release in November 2020.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Austin Stand at the Motor Show in Earls Court in 1975.
Collection: Longbridge
Date: 1975
Reference Number: CC015049
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The Rexton Echo recently ran a series of pieces about the older folk in town. Called "So, what did you used to be good at then?", the idea was to interview the inhabitants of St Dudgeons, the local care home, and write their wonderful life stories, distilled into easy-to-read brief sentences.
One such is replicated here.
The life of a puppeteer seemed a glamorous one to Earl Pullem. As a young man, the heady sights of the film Pinocchio, the feel of hemp between his fingers, and the susurration of a well-tugged leg string played well to his receptive mind.
At first, he travelled to weekly markets with his little homemade puppet show, "Madge and Badge". He was happy playing to tiny audiences, though of course as they became less tiny they moved on to other amusements, such as breathing.
Then Earl got a job as chief puppeteer on the hit TV show "Major Wilkins and Rumblepuss" and spent many years pulling the strings there.
But now, sadly, Earl has retired. Here he is in St Dudgeons Care Home, where he spends the days dreaming of times past, and the evenings endlessly untangling.
D Stock on Ealing Common Depot at the Western end of the District Line, is visited by London Transport's "Jubilee-Circle Line Railtour" which operated two trains the second running exactly an hour after the first.
Both trains were made up of the then new but short lived 1983 Jubilee Line tube stock.
The tour which started at Baker Street visited,
St Marys Curve
Lillie Bridge Depot
Northfields Depot
White City Depot
Ruislip Depot
Ealing Common Depot
Cockfosters Depot.
16th September 1984
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Earl Granard
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35010
Call Number: LC-B2- 5841-16
Desde la tierra del bambuco, el tamal con chocolate, el anonimato dibujado, las radionovelas, los croydon, el futbol de barrio, el Tino Asprilla en el parma, las cobijas en las ventanas y el divino niño cuidandonos.
Un tributo dibujado para Earl Sweatshirt musica exquisitas
para oidos finos.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Earl Clarendon
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.36335
Call Number: LC-B2- 6052-11
Earl was born in Chicago and he lives on the street in South Central Los Angeles. At one time he was the state boxing champion in 1980-81. Earl is homeless now because he's addicted to drugs and alcohol. He said he just can't quit. I was amazed as I talked to Earl about life on the street. I asked him if anyone ever tried to start a fight with him and he said they were surprised how quickly the fight ended. Earl had a very good sense of humor and I ended up buying him a chicken dinner because I enjoyed our conversation so much.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Group Page.
London Underground S7 Stock 21317/318 stands at Earl's Court after working Train 753 West Ham-Earl's Court 'Training Run'.
The Seven carriage version of the airconditioned S-Stock train is now in service on the Hammersmith & City & Circle lines and will eventually enter service on the District line in 2014. This train is replacing the 40 year old C-Stock trains that operate on the Circle,Hammersmith & City & District lines and D-stock trains that operate on the District line.
Further to my photograph taken on platform 3 on the 2nd August 2022, here is the westbound District Line train destination lightboxes on platform 4 at Earl's Court.
This time the indicator is showing a train to Kensington (Olympia).
The service to Kensington (Olympia) was operating about every 10 minutes from Plaistow to cover the Beer & Ale Festival.
National Express Coventry Enviro 400, 4894 travels past the Coventry Council House and Council House Extension - linked together by a bridge/walkway. As I understand it - many functions of the City Council will move out to new premises located within the Friargate development. But I assume these buildings (certainly the old) will remain standing and in use.
Tug
IMO: 9639983
MMSI: 235090599
Call Sign: 2FEP6
Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
AIS Type: Tug
Gross Tonnage: 200
Deadweight: -
Length × Breadth: 24.07m × 13m
Year Built: 2012
Castle class, 5051 Earl Bathurst makes a spirited assault on Washford Bank on Saturday at the start of the West Somerset Railway's Spring Steam gala. Owned by Didcot railway centre, she is coming up to the end of her current 10 year boiler ticket and it's starting to show, steam should not be leaking from the valve chests like that.
A couple more 20s shots from Saturday in the Hope Valley.
Around lunchtime and following the arrival of the Dewsbury to Earles, the main train loco had shunted its load back into the two sidings at the head of Earles Sidings and ran off to the stabling and fuelling point. Then secretly sneaking down the branch from the Hope cement works came HNRL No 3, formerly known as D8319, 20219 or 20906 to rejoin the two rakes of tanks to take the empties back up to Hope Cement works for filling.
The ghostly white livery is not the only secretive thing about this loco as it has been specifically silenced so sadly none of the English Electric whistle as it heads up the branch.
After forty minutes in the museum the sunshine was out again!
Earl of Pembroke is a wooden barque, currently being used as a tall ship of the 18th century for historical films. She can also be rented for excursions
She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as "Orion" in 1945 or 1948. The ship was used to haul timber in the Baltic Sea until 1974, when she was laid up in Thisted, Denmark. Square Sail Shipyard and Robin Davies purchased the ship in 1979 and began restoration in 1985
I passed this castle back in the summer of 2020, I could see the ruins though through large flourishing trees covered in lush greenery, I re-visited Saturday 21st November 2020 on a magnificent Autumn day, offering
better opportunity to capture this magnificent ruin.
The first mention of Esslemont is as the 'manor of Eislemont' in the 14th century.
The lands of Esslemont were passed by marriage from the family of Mareschal by marriage of the heiress Janet to Francis le Chen of Straloch in the 14th century.
After the castle was burnt in 1493, Henry Cheyne undertook re-building via a king's licence dated 1500. In 1564 Patrick Cheyne was created baron of Esslemont by Queen Mary, who stayed here during her campaign against the Earl of Huntly, and a fortalice and tower were recorded in 1575–6.
The castle was then destroyed as the result of a feud between the Cheynes and the Hays.
The name of the lands, now as "Essilmounthe", appears in Scottish records in 1609.
The castle ceased to be regularly occupied in 1625, when the estate passed to the Errol family. In 1728 it became the property of Robert Gordon and may have been partially occupied till 1769, when the existing mansion, Esslemont House, was erected in its vicinity.
In 1938 excavations within the enclosure revealed the lower courses of the earlier castle, a massive, L-shaped towerhouse with walls 6–7 feet (1.8–2.1 m) thick and 6 feet (1.8 m) maximum height. There had been a curtain wall 4 feet (1.2 m) thick. The surrounding ditch may date from the 14th century.
Finds from the excavation included 14/15th century potsherds, a medallion, and a worn shilling of William III.
In 1938 excavations within the enclosure revealed the lower courses of the earlier castle, a massive, L-shaped towerhouse with walls 6–7 feet (1.8–2.1 m) thick and 6 feet (1.8 m) maximum height. There had been a curtain wall 4 feet (1.2 m) thick. The surrounding ditch may date from the 14th century. Finds from the excavation included 14/15th century potsherds, a medallion, and a worn shilling of William III.
The castle is roofless and missing large sections of wall which were reused in building sites nearby. Especially noticeable are the missing dressed stones of the windows.
The structure is a L Plan castle with a staircase turret and a round tower at the south east angle. The main building seems on the ground floor to have contained the kitchen, with a wide fireplace in the north gable; the rugged edges of the ruined sides of the flue being visible high up in the gable.
Though ruined, the remains are clearly on three stories. The Gordon Arms are visible on the exterior of the castle.
Despite standing close beside the road, Esslemont castle is easily missed by motorists looking for a last opportunity to get past two cars and a van before reaching the confines of Ellon's 30mph speed limit! It stands on the north side of the A920 largely hidden by trees, about two miles west of Ellon, in the grounds of Esslemont House - for long the seat of the Wolridge-Gordon family.
The building is a variation of the L-plan, with a main block orientated north / south, and a wing extending west (to the left in this photo) from the south end of the main block (parallel with the main road). There was a stair tower in the re-entrant angle on the North West side, and a large round tower, corbelled out to the square at the top, on the outside angle of the L to the south east. The remains of the kitchen chimney flue can also still be traced. The building would have been three storeys and an attic high.
This shows the gable of the south end of the main block, with the scant remains of the west wing's stonework to the left, and the round tower on the external angle of the L to the right. The way the round tower is corbelled out to the square at the top, no doubt to form a watch chamber, is reminiscent of Claypotts castle in Dundee. The Wolridge-Gordons must have stabilised the ruins some time back, which would explain the condition of the pointing, which one would expect to be in much worse condition on a castle in this state. The windows in this south gable, as elsewhere in the main block, are rather larger than usual, which might be the result of the castle's dressed stone, including the window surrounds, being taken away for use in other buildings.
This crest in the south wall shows beyond doubt that Esslemont Castle has been a Gordon property. It shows three boars heads at the bottom, the Gordon motto "Bydand", meaning steadfast, at the top, and in the centre a stag's head above a crown. Despite this, the castle was not built by the Gordons. It was erected by Henry Cheyne of Straloch under a license dated 1500, and was only regularly lived in for about a century.
The previous castle on this site was destroyed as the result of a feud between the Cheynes of Esslemont and the Hays of Ardendracht in 1493 - not the building we see today. Following this event the Privy Council decreed that the Hays should pay 20 pounds compensation to the Cheynes, and no doubt making best possible use of this handsome sum, the Cheynes erected the building we see today, although probably not until nearly a century later. (There are features of the castle's design that date it to the period 1570 to 1590)
In 1938 the site of Esslemont Castle was excavated and a considerable amount was discovered, most of which has now vanished back under the undergrowth again. For a start, the foundations of a second castle were discovered a short distance to the west of the present structure. This too was an L-plan castle, and it sat in the middle of a five sided courtyard, which had round towers on all the corners, 19ft in diameter. The round tower of the present castle (see here) sits on the foundations of the easternmost tower of this curtain wall ("wall of enceinte"), and the site of another tower is now under the main road. The report on the excavation of this older castle states that "Traces of fire were abundantly present in and around the tower house", which proves that this was the castle burned down by the Hays, and not the structure we see today. Around the outside of the wall of enceinte there was also a ditch.
The existing castle was built by the Cheynes, probably between 1570 and 1590, and was no doubt built using the stones of its predecessor.
During the religious troubles of Reformation period it became the property of George Jamesone, a famous painter, who died in 1644.
In 1646 it was occupied by a party of Covenanters, but a party from the Royalist garrison at Fyvie castle, under the command of Capt. Blackater attacked Esslemont and drove the Covenanters off "killing thirty six of them, and brought away their horses and arms, with such other stuff as they had".
The Earls of Erroll, who had acquired the estate after Jamesone's death, sold it in 1728 to Robert Gordon of Hallhead (near Alford), with whose descendants it remains to this day.
1493 ~ Esslemont Castle is attacked and burnt by the Hays of Ardendracht. They are later fined by The Privy Council £20 for the destruction they caused.
1500 ~ The Cheynes receive a licence to crenellate a part of their repairs.
1564 ~ Mary, Queen of Scots is entertained at the castle.
1570 ~ A new two-storey L-plan Tower House is built in a corner of the existing castle with one of the round towers of the curtain wall incorporated into its Tower House. Stone from the original castle is used in its construction.
1625 ~ The castle passes to the Errol family but, as they had other residences, Esslemont is neglected.
1646 ~ Esslemont is briefly occupied by Covenanter forces but they are driven off by the pro-Royalist forces from Fyvie Castle, "killing thirty six of them, and brought away their horses and arms, with such other stuff as they had"
1728 ~ The castle is sold to Robert Gordon and continues to be used as an occasional residence until Esslemont House was built forty years later, thereafter falling into ruin
Esslemont Castle was originally an enclosure castle until being turned into a three storey L-shaped Tower House.
It is situated very close to the A920, almost hidden by trees.
This crest in the south wall shows that Esslemont Castle was once a Gordon property.
There is still plenty of the castle that remains to explore, including extensive foundations of a bakery, brewhouse and stables that lay hidden beneath the undergrowth.
Photograph above;
MV EARL GRANVILLE is captured with the need of her ropes to be made secure at Weymouth Harbour to end her sailing from Jersey and Guernsey in her busiest period of the year, the school holidays which can be supported by noticing how crowded the beach is above her!
Photograph Copyright; Digital Expression UK (2020)
OVERVIEW
Built in 1973 by Jos L Meyer, Papenburg, West Germany as Viking 4 for Rederi AB Sally, Mariehamn, Finland. Sold in April 1980 to Williams & Glyn's Industrial Leasing Ltd, London. Delivery scheduled for August. Renamed Earl Granville in August 1980, chartered to Sealink in September 1980 on a 10-year contract. Sold in September 1990 to Aegan Pelagos Naftiki Eteria, Piraeus, and renamed Express Olympia. Transferred in 1992 to Agapitos Express Ferries, Greece. Sold in November 1999 to Minoan Flying Dolphins, Piraeus. Laid up at Drapetsona in September 2004. Transferred in January 2005 to Hellenic Seaways. Sold to Indian shipbreakers in April 2005 and renamed Express O in June. Reflagged to Mongolia for voyage to Alang, India.