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Alnwick Castle was first built as a motte and bailey castle with wooden buildings. A stone keep was erected in the mid 12th century. In 1309 the castle was bought by Henry Percy and by 1352 had assumed a similar aspect to today. By c.1750 it was ruinous. The 1st Duke of Northumberland wanted to make it habitable and called in Robert Adam, who gave it a complete and fanciful Gothick interior. In the Victorian period, the 4th Duke employed Anthony Salvin to extirpate Adam's work in favour of the present overpowering Italianate interiors, at a cost of £250,000. Externally, some new towers were built and others reconstructed. The park was laid out by Capability Brown c.1765, and there are garden buildings by Adam and others. This view shows the Music Room.
From the Charles Hind Postcard Collection. Postmark 1905.
The Castle is a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which gave the City of Newcastle its name. The most prominent remaining structures on the site are the Castle Keep, the castle's main fortified stone tower, and the Black Gate, its fortified gatehouse.
Use of the site for defensive purposes dates from Roman times, when it housed a fort and settlement called Pons Aelius, guarding a bridge over the River Tyne. In 1080, a wooden motte and bailey style castle was built on the site of the Roman fort, which was the 'New Castle upon Tyne'. It was built by Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, having returned south from a campaign against Malcolm III of Scotland. The stone Castle Keep was built between 1172 and 1177 by Henry II on the site of Curthose's castle. The Black Gate was added between 1247 and 1250 by Henry III.[1]
The site is in the centre of Newcastle, and lies to the east of Newcastle Central Station. The 75 feet (23 m) gap between the Keep and the Gatehouse is almost entirely filled by a railway viaduct, carrying the East Coast Main Line from Newcastle to Scotland. The Castle Keep and Black Gate pre-dated the construction of the Newcastle town wall, construction of which started sometime around 1265, and did not form part of it. Nothing remains of the Roman fort or the original motte and bailey castle. The Keep is a Grade I listed building, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The Keep is owned by the City Council, which leases it to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, who manage it as a visitor attraction. The society is based in the Black Gate, and use it to house a library and as a meeting place.
A wall in downtown Trinidad Cuba. What struck me was the barbed wire on top. I believe this was the back part of the yard on a pottery house, so the occupants were probably trying to protect their wares. Originally taken with a Canon Elph Sport, KODAK APS 200 ISO film, matte finish print, scanned at 300 DPI.
A group of mountain
climbers makes its way up a glacier with perilous trails of tumbling rocks overhead.
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"Pink Chiefette, will you marry me? I promise to keep you safe from Covenant attack until death do we part."
Stonebarrow Keep was my first large-scale Castle MOC I built with absolutely no plan. I just let the creativity flow. I think it's one of my best MOCs.
Tonight we conjured characters out of inanimate objects! The kids made bats and baseballs into brothers; tacos into tap dancers; letters and numbers and candy became a carnival of personality.
These children have faced severe, isolating challenges and are separated from their families as they receive counseling and treatment. It is deeply moving to sense them slowly shift from hesitance and wariness to laughing and playing and creating as we draw together. By the end of the night, one girl who had been very withdrawn in the beginning, ran back into her room to fetch her own artwork and put on her own little exhibit for us. She has definite talent and a signature style we're calling "manga pointillism." We hope that she and all these beautiful children keep drawing, keep dreaming and healing and feeling the nurturing connection between us all.
Thank you, wonderful children and staff of Bellevue, for always welcoming us with such warmth and energy, and to our beloved Ink Well volunteers for sharing your time and talent: Ray Alma, Todd Broder, Willy Hartland and Elizabeth Winter.