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Flint Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fflint) located in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
The site was chosen for its strategic position in North East Wales. The castle was only one day's march from Chester, supplies could be brought along the River Dee and there was by a ford across to England that could be used at low tide.
The Pedaler’s Jamboree was held at multiple venues along the Katy Trail on May 28, 2016. Performers included Aaron Kamm and the One Drops, The Mighty Pines, Flint Eastwood, Shrub, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Jenny Teator and The Fevers, and Steve Ewing.
Photo by Monica Mileur.
Buddy Whittington is an American guitarist who was the guitarist for John Mayall, the Godfather of the British Blues Bluesbreakers, for fifthteen years.
Mayall's musicians have included Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
Mayall stated that of "all of em' Buddy was the best"!
1284-2024 Flint Castle is also famous as the location of a fateful meeting in 1399 between Richard II and his rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), an event immortalised in Shakespeare’s Richard II.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Just after it stopped snowing, I drove the Pintler Scenic Highway above Flint Creek Canyon.
Flint Castle, located in Flint, Flintshire, Wales was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
Situated over a harbour on the River Dee estuary, construction began in 1277 and continued for nine years. The castle is believed to have been based on French (or Savoyard) contemporary models, with one of the corner towers enlarged and isolated, made to serve as keep (e.g. Dourdan). The keep itself is of a unique plan to the British Isles, with the only close parallel to be found at Aigues-Mortes, France, which King Edward I, may have been familiar with. This plan, with the isolated keep was not repeated in the other castles of Edward I (see Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd).
In 1399 Richard II of England was captured and held there before being returned to London. The castle was occupied many times during the English Civil War and it has also been used as a quarry.
In 1838 J. M. W. Turner painted a watercolor of the castle.
Flint Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fflint) located in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
The site was chosen for its strategic position in North East Wales. The castle was only one day's march from Chester, supplies could be brought along the River Dee and there was by a ford across to England that could be used at low tide.
Historical marker reads:
"Berston Field House and Playground
Berston Field House and Playground has served Flint citizens as an important recreation center since it opened in 1923. Designed by Cambridge, Massachusettes, city planning firm of John Nolen, it was developed on land deeded to the city of Flint by members of Neil J. Berston family in 1920. The field house contained an auditorium, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, community meeting rooms and a branch of the public library. At Berston people participated in sports, exercised, performed and learned new skills. During the mid-1930s, Berston became the first community center in Flint to admit African-Americans living in the surrounding neighborhood, Berston Field House and Playground remains a significant part of the neighborhood."