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Grantham, Castlegate. Part of the Grantham House Estate, owned by the National Trust. Formerly stable buildings, now converted to cottages and grade 1 listed.
Unable to travel far I have been documenting my current home town during the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown. The centre of town is near deserted - there are a few people around if you look carefully but most are staying away.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England - Grantham House Cottages, Castlegate
May 2020
Arriva North East 7568 SK72 CVH In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 11:05 X15 Berwick to Newcastle Service
Borders Buses 11505 YJ65 EUR In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 11:35 235 Coldingham to Berwick Service
Arriva North East 7565 SK72 CVE In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 10:05 X18 Berwick to Newcastle Service
Borders Buses 12304 RX23 TFO In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 10:00 32 Berwick to Duns Service
Borders Buses 12317 SJ23 HRW In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 09:05 464 Berwick to Wooler Service
Arriva North East 7564 SK72 CVD In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 10:13 X18 Berwick to Newcastle Service
Castlegate York, a French resturaunt with amazing windows!
Need to try a little later in the day perhaps to improve capturing them.
View of HM Bark Endeavour moored at Castlegate Quay, along with Teesside Princess river cruise boat, shot from the Teesquay Millennium Footbridge.
The ship is a full size replica of the one Captain Cook used in his first voyage of discovery to Australia.
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Arriva North East 7576 SK72 CVS In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 09:05 X15 Berwick to Newcastle Service
Borders Buses 12105 RJ21 XDL In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 09:10 32 Duns to Berwick Service
Grade II and II* listed historic buildings.
"Berwick-upon-Tweed (/ˌbɛrɪk-/; Scots: Sooth Berwick, Scottish Gaelic: Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland. It is the northernmost town in England, at the mouth of the River Tweed on the east coast, 2 1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) south of the Scottish border (the hamlet of Marshall Meadows is the actual northernmost settlement). Berwick is approximately 56 mi (90 km) east-south east of Edinburgh, 65 mi (105 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne and 345 mi (555 km) north of London.
The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded Berwick's population as 12,043. A civil parish and town council were created in 2008 comprising the communities of Berwick, Spittal and Tweedmouth.
Berwick was founded as an Anglo-Saxon settlement during the time of the Kingdom of Northumbria, which was annexed by England in the 10th century. The area was for more than 400 years central to historic border wars between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and several times possession of Berwick changed hands between the two kingdoms. The last time it changed hands was when Richard of Gloucester retook it for England in 1482. To this day many Berwickers feel a close affinity to Scotland.
Berwick remains a traditional market town and also has some notable architectural features, in particular its medieval town walls, its Georgian Town Hall, its Elizabethan ramparts, and Britain's earliest barracks buildings, which Nicholas Hawksmoor built (1717–21) for the Board of Ordnance." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Borders Buses 11705 YJ17 FWV In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 09:15 60 Berwick to Duns Via Eyemouth Service
CASTLEGATE GETS GREY TO GREEN TRANSFORMATION
The scheme links Castlegate to the under-visited ‘hidden jewel’ of Victoria Quays and has transformed the almost redundant former inner ring road from a barrier to a green corridor with sustainable drainage, floral meadows, segregated cycle lanes and public art.
Castlegate (the Street) has been closed to vehicles to create a large riverside terrace with potential to accommodate outdoor seating for existing and future cafes and bars including the former public toilet due to open as the Two Rivers Bar and the Tap and Barrel, now under new management by the Peddlers Market team. The street will also hold the newly established Sheffield Pollen Market, the first fresh flower market in Sheffield, which will take place every third Sunday of the month.
Fifty-seven new trees have been planted as part of the scheme, along with a multitude of low maintenance perennial meadow plants and bulbs which will provide a year long succession of colour and natural habitat for insects, birds and mammals.
The scheme includes four distinctive, specially designed ‘totems’ containing ‘bug hotels’ which provide places for bees and other insects to thrive, along with nature and heritage insights.
An oil painting of Sheffield Castle by artist Kenneth Steel completed in 1950 for the Brightside and Carbrook Cooperative store headquarters in Angel Street. I had a fun afternoon exploring the Sheffield Castle site as part of the Heritage Open Days (Sunday 15th September 2019), learning about the history of Sheffield, seeing some of the finds from the 2018 Wessex Archaeology dig, and visiting some of the castle ruins not normally on public display... The tour was led by Professor John Moreland from the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology with help from the Friends of Sheffield Castle, Wessex Archaeology, and local historian and raconteur Ron Clayton.
It is believed that the first Castle on the site in Sheffield was a Norman motte & bailey castle (usually attributed to William de Lovetot, an Anglo-Norman Baron), with the earliest known reference to a castle at Sheffield being around 1188. The castle passed to the Furnival family who supported the Royalist cause during the Second Barons' War of 1264–1267. In 1266 a party of anti-monarchy barons, led by John de Eyvill, passed through Sheffield, apparently burning the castle.
In 1270 Thomas de Furnival obtained a charter from King Henry III to build a castle at Sheffield and this is the more well known one. It was built of stone and extended from the River Sheaf to Waingate and then from the river Don to Dixon Lane, an area of about 4.2 acres (17,000 m2; 180,000 sq ft). A 2,461-acre (9.96 km2; 3.845 sq mi) deer park was attached to the castle, one of the largest deer parks in the country at the time. Mary, Queen of Scots, was held prisoner in this castle and its associated estates for 14 years between 1570 and 1584. he castle was held by Royalist forces for part of the English Civil War, and was surrendered to the Parliamentarians in 1644 following a short siege. Its destruction was then ordered by an Act of Parliament in 1647 and the castle was razed to the ground. Over future years the site became home to a bowling green, cementation furnace, slaughter houses and then Castle Market in the 1960s.
Sadly there are no contemporary paintings or plans of Sheffield Castle so all reconstructions of Sheffield Castle (like this painting by Kenneth Steel) are based on surviving descriptions and archaeology. The first excavation was led by Leslie Armstrong in 1927 and this discovered the gatehouse. The ruins here are quite extensive, a small portion of which is viewable, though via a manhole cover and step ladders and has been sealed now for several years. There is a second room containing a section of castle wall that is accessible and it was this that was viewable on the Heritage Open Days. It is hoped that in the future the site will be turned into a park with both the River Sheaf and Sheffield Castle foundations uncovered for all to enjoy.
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Arriva North East 7572 SK72 CVN In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 09:05 X15 Berwick to Newcastle Service
Cartimandua, according to Wikipedia, was queen in the first century AD to a Celtic people called the Brigantes, in what is now northern England. She ruled at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain and was part of a tribal alliance that became loyal to Rome.
The things you find out about when out taking photographs of buses…
Sheffield, Castlegate, 10/07/2018.
Arriva North East 7570 SK72 CVL In Castlegate Berwick Upon Tweed On the 06:30 X18 Morpeth to Berwick Service
The Castlegate in Aberdeen was chosen as the site for this Gordon Highlanders statue because this was the site of their original 1700s barracks before moving to the Bridge of Don. Castlegate Barracks was located at the end of Union Street and Castle Street, affording views over the harbour. Sculptor: Mark Richards