The most recognisable feature at Cardiff Castle is surely the impressive twelve-sided Keep, the finest example in Wales. This type is known as a ‘shell’ keep because its outer walls provided a protective shell for smaller buildings within.
The stone Keep was built in the early 12th Century by Robert Consul, Earl of Gloucester, replacing the [...]
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Filed under Cardiff 2025, Heritage, Holidays
Cardiff Castle – The Keep
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2025
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
The Vermont Hotel, Newcastle
Over the years I have stayed in many hotels in Newcastle. I first encountered the Hotel Vermont in 2013 and, although on that occasion I only stayed there for one night I immediately fell in love with it. Now it is my choice of accommodation when I stay in Newcastle.
From the hotel website:
The Vermont Hotel [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
The Castle Keep – Chapel
The chapel lies below the main entrance stairway. In the middle ages it could only be entered from the outside through a small door to the left of the stairs. The chapel consists of a small nave set at right angles to the chancel, and was partly restored by John Dobson in 1848. It is now entered [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2013
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
The Castle Keep
The castle at Newcastle is situated on a steep sided promontory overlooking the River Tyne.
It is a naturally defensible site, which archaeological excavations show has been occupied for nearly 2000 years. Flint flakes and a stone axe head hint at prehistoric activity, and the grooves left by early ploughs – ard marks – have been [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2013
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle 2013
The Castle Keep and The Black Gate
In this photograph The Castle Keep is situated behind The Black Gate. The Castle Keep website has this to say about the keep:
The Castle Keep of Newcastle upon Tyne was built by Henry II between 1168-1178, it is one of the finest surviving examples of a Norman Keep in the country.
It stands within a [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 16th 2013
