I'm in America, I told my wife we have to plan to go to the UK, I have to see all these wonderful castles and old structures firsthand. Thank you for recording these excellent videos!
The aim is to provide a wargamer's look at these sites but also to let people outside the UK have a look at what real castles or fortresses look like. Fingers crossed... I may be hitting some of the big Anglo-Welsh castles and a battlefield in a few weeks. Barry
I think you are being a little unjust to English Heritage and their current programme of renovations. Firstly E H took over all the Ministry of Works sites many of which I recall in the fifties with little more than a railing around them and a capping of cement over an odd pillar or two. National Trust properties were usually donated with some cash as a tax option by the owners to the nation. During COVID EH ran short of funds because the public were unable to visit and a number of their projects were put on hold. The renovation of these premises is not a hurried prop up matter but a considered and researched task and those of us who are member’s are pleased that our contribution are used that way. A substantial number of sites are free for the public to enter as they were before when under M o W aegis but still maintained. Baconsthorpe Castle is a little like Wingfield, a private property, which was existed not as a fortress as were the Welsh border castles but as a place of local refuge in times of excitement when the biggest risk was really from small forces which were basically large robber bands sometimes under local lords. There are many such castles and houses in East Anglia which housed many competing families from court who would carry their competition home with them and Norwich at that time was the second city in the Kingdom.
I'm in America, I told my wife we have to plan to go to the UK, I have to see all these wonderful castles and old structures firsthand. Thank you for recording these excellent videos!
The aim is to provide a wargamer's look at these sites but also to let people outside the UK have a look at what real castles or fortresses look like. Fingers crossed... I may be hitting some of the big Anglo-Welsh castles and a battlefield in a few weeks.
Barry
Thanks for this, nice potted history of an interesting site. Just up the road from me as well.
Thank you.
Not far from me either. I have since put up Castle Rising as well. All this is a work-in-progress as I am new to video and editing.
B
I think you are being a little unjust to English Heritage and their current programme of renovations. Firstly E H took over all the Ministry of Works sites many of which I recall in the fifties with little more than a railing around them and a capping of cement over an odd pillar or two. National Trust properties were usually donated with some cash as a tax option by the owners to the nation. During COVID EH ran short of funds because the public were unable to visit and a number of their projects were put on hold. The renovation of these premises is not a hurried prop up matter but a considered and researched task and those of us who are member’s are pleased that our contribution are used that way. A substantial number of sites are free for the public to enter as they were before when under M o W aegis but still maintained.
Baconsthorpe Castle is a little like Wingfield, a private property, which was existed not as a fortress as were the Welsh border castles but as a place of local refuge in times of excitement when the biggest risk was really from small forces which were basically large robber bands sometimes under local lords. There are many such castles and houses in East Anglia which housed many competing families from court who would carry their competition home with them and Norwich at that time was the second city in the Kingdom.