Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent January 2011
This central courtyard dates from the 1280s:
As early as the 14th century, cisterns were installed beneath it, to which water was supplied for the castle from springs in the park. The yard was totally refurbished in the 1920s by Lady Baillie’s designer Rateau. *
*From the Leeds Castle guide book.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2011
Filed under Crookham 2009, Holidays
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert A Heinlein
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 30th 2011
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent January 2011
Leeds Castle was listed in the Doomsday Book as a Saxon manor and has played many roles since then. It has been a Norman stronghold; private residence of six of six of England’s medieval queens; a palace used by Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon; a Jacobean country house; a Georgian mansion; [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2011
Filed under Holidays, Kent January 2011
I have been away for a long weekend in Kent and I have been enjoying a lazy day. That is if you can call sorting out all my photographs from the weekend being lazy…
The weekend itself was quite relaxing and I managed to take in a couple of places of interest. Leeds Castle and the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2011
