Wednesday 28 February 2018

Urban sketching on our travels


from Mottisfont to

Corfe Castle (links at the end of the post)






Corfe Caste...




the village at core castle



LINKS:

Corfe Castle National Trust
Corfe castle village






Monday 26 February 2018

Corfe Castle

We have driven past this castle (ruins actually) for years and never had a look around it.  Decided we would on this occasion, and it turned out to be interesting.  For one thing we hadn't realised that it became a ruin, not through the ravages of weather and time, but because it had been a complete castle until Parliament, back in the day, decided it would have to be blown up (or under as it turned out, explosives were planted in the ground and blew it up).  I'll find some Links to add at the end of this post...

Here's a photo from one of the signs there to start off with - hope you can read it.



We walked around the perimeter, next to a stream.  Gave me a chance to photo various things...

As we passed the stream, we saw large building materials, and wondered if they had fallen down the hill from the castle, but then found a Information notice with these pics....again hope you can read them...











We finally made our way round to the entrance and so on up to the ruin

 
This next photo was looking back toward the entrance











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Sunday 25 February 2018

Mottisfont National Trust



We have visited here before, but it's always good to go back and have another look around.  The National Trust properties do change some of their displays and in this case they had a really good exhibition about Heath Robinson and his artwork on show....how could I NOT go and see it.


...first sight of the house...




looking out to the river that runs along next to the property

pano photo - was quite funny as one of the national trust guides realised what I was doing and kept moving round so he did n't end up in the photo 

this is on the right-hand side of the property

the River Test


and now for the Heath Robinson exhibition

{sorry about the bright-spots on some of the following photos, the lights in the rooms caught the camera}

and I ended up in the reflection - Doh!




















Well worth the visit to see these drawings.


{thank you Mottisfont for putting on this exhibition}


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