Bamburgh Castle
A very nice castle, with a great location, and still inhabited by the family.
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The gateway
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The keep and other buildings
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There's a long line of guns facing the sea. Vikings first landed in England near here, and you have to be on guard.
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This is one of the Farne Islands, but not Lindisfarne. The gray building on the left is St. Cuthbert's Chapel.
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The Great Kitchen, originally built in 1300s, largely destroyed in 1464 during War of the Roses, rebuilt as a kitchen in the 1700s. I'm a little concerned by the presence of cradles in the fireplace.
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Model of the castle
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An actual sedan chair, which you often hear of, but never see.
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They obviously stripped all the old varnish off the floors, but stopped at a room that wasn't going to be shown to the public. And now it is.
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The Second Small Room
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The Kings Hall, same size and shape as the medieval great hall. Ceiling is made with over 300 tons of Siamese teak, so obviously not original.
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They had a ball here with over 400 people in attendance
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Very nice portico at the inner end of the hall
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The ceiling
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The windows
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The portico from the middle of the hall
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The raised upper end of the hall
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Nice little stone work details
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Stairs going up
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Nice arch
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Some nice vaulting in a small passageway
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Another off-limits staircase. The family DO live here, after all.
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The billiard room. I include this picture as a rebuke to Alnwick Castle, which also has a billiard room. This table is much nicer and in better shape.
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Beautiful inlain table.
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Nice fireplace
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Carved chest, showing a pelican in its piety
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Copy of part of the Bayeux tapestry
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Anothercopy of part of the Bayeux tapestry
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About these two copies
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Spears
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V-necked hauberk, for the hot summer battles
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The Armoury, originally a Norman chapel in the 1100s. The pikes and muskets belonged to the Northhumbrian Militia.
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Crossbow, and its cranking mechanism
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Toys
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Swords and other toys
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More toys
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Oooh, more toys
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View from the armoury
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More toys
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More toys
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More toys
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Another crossbow and windlass
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In case you didn't realize it, they like polearms here.
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Nice display in a basement room, but the lights are very yellow, and I couldn't get a picture any better than this. It looks like gray stone in person.
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Even closer in, the yellow lights overwhelm everything.
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In the scullery, a line of sinks
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The first three have no drains, so how do they empty them?
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There are some good views of the castle as you approach, but no place to pull over to take a picture. I asked the man at the parking lot where to get a good picature, and he sent me the other way, and I got this.
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This one is from the town. Lucky people, getting to see such a nice castle every day.