Crickhowell Archives • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

these are some interesting places around Wales. I have found this country to be extremely beautiful. If you are interested in beautiful countryside or beautiful villages in cities and beautiful hills then this is definitely a place to visit, anywhere around Wales.

Castle Coch

this was the second castle that John of Bute rebuilt for you and his wife too bring up their family. Of course he spent a lot of time in London and castle in Cardiff but also spent quite a bit of time here as well.

Three Greek gods around Wales — These are three Greek gods. Of course John was able to read an ancient Greek and Latin as well.

Restoration work around Wales — This is the castle from the front. They are doing some restoration work.

Stories on the walls around Wales — Various stories painted on the walls for edification.

The Lords of the area around Wales — Family tree of the Lords of this area

The sitting room — This is the sitting room. You will notice places to sit by the windows at different places in the room to catch the sun as it moves around

Decorated ceiling — A beautifully decorated ceiling

Middle courtyard — The courtyard in the middle

Beautiful ceiling and crest — Another beautiful ceiling with a wall which has a dual family crest of John and his wife

John’s bedroom Bill Smale — This is John’s bedroom

Dual crest Bill Smale — Another dual family crest which is different than the other one. I did not ask why they were different.

Beautiful ceiling Bill Smale — the bedroom’s beautiful ceiling

A display of food — This is just a display of what people were eating at the time at different parts of the day with some clothing from that era

Margaret’s bedroom — The bedroom of one of the children, Margaret

Old entertainment — The modern entertainment machine

Old telephone — This phone obviously was made for a left-handed person

Crickhowell

Countryside photos — Just some beautiful photos of the countryside

One of these smelting plants of the area

Tretower castle

this is actually two castles. One was built during the Norman times and the other one was built later. I was not able to walk over to the old Norman castle since it was raining and the mud was too much of an obstacle.

Castle Courtyard — The courtyard of the New York Castle

Tretower Castle

The Norman castle — This is the old castle built by Picard in the 11th century

Beautiful scenery — I took several photos because I just found the scenery very beautiful

Talking snakes on a virtual tour — They had these virtual displays here with talking snakes explaining the details of the people who lived there and some of the artifacts

Dining room — A long room probably for dining

Bill was sticks and mud — This shows how the Newcastle walls were constructed, with sticks and mud for the façade, outside walls.

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