Castles

Preview of The Complete Canterbury Tales at Oxford Castle 2:00pm Wednesday 29th June 2011 Print Email Share Geoffrey Chaucer completed 23 of his bawdy, irreverent Canterbury Tales. Now the Pantaloons open-air theatre company are touring the lot, in what they describe as their “ambitious and hilarious new complete version”. But that involves more than 70 … Continue reading »

Editor’s note: “If Walls Could Talk” features vital homes and other buildings in Ardmore, Merion and Wynnewood—their architectural style, their history, and the people that have, and continue to, walk through their doorways. In the first of a series, writer Brooke Hoffman looks at a church in Wynnewood built for a clothing baron. At the … Continue reading »

ALEXANDRIA BAY — The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority will acquire Blue Heron Marine and Boat Works, Wellesley Island, for $1.1 million to relocate its Boldt Castle maintenance operations, according to the director of the Boldt facilities. Shane K. Sanford, Boldt properties director, said the maintenance, woodworking and paint shop now housed in the Boldt Yacht … Continue reading »

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OHEKA History Almost a century ago, financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn built OHEKA CASTLE in the middle of a 443 acre plot on the highest point on Long Island in Cold Spring Harbor, for an estimated cost of $11 million dollars ($110 million dollars in today’s currency). At the time of its construction, the … Continue reading »

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Dinas war veteran’s voice echoes through castle tunnels 3:00pm Sunday 26th June 2011 Print Email Share Comments(0) The voice of a Dinas war veteran is echoing through the secret tunnels of Dover Castle, decades after he etched his name on the chalky walls. Former printer Richard Sheen was stationed at the castle while in the … Continue reading »

LAST weekend, my four-year-old, Dylan, experienced something I think he’ll remember for the rest of his life. We went to Joust at Cardiff Castle – and it was AMAZING! You know when you really build up to something, you’re so excited, and then the actuality is not as good as the anticipation? This did not … Continue reading »

Castle covenant shock 12:50pm Friday 24th June 2011 AMMANFORD town councillors have had their hackles raised by a letter from Carmarthenshire county council concerning the town’s motte and bailey castle. The local authority had agreed to sell the castle – situated in the grounds of Cartref residential home in Tirydail Lane – to the town … Continue reading »