How About Castles - Anyone Got Any Castle Shots?

Berwartstein Castle, Germany

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The Barbican Gate. Sandwich. Kent. UK.
A minor fortification rather than a castle. Constructed in Tudor period (1485-1602) as part of King Henry the Eighth's fortifications against foreign invasion.

https://en.wikipedia.o​rg/wiki/Sandwich,_Kent

The Barbican Gate. Sandwich. Kent. UK.
From another angle.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19181109
The Barbican Gate. Sandwich. Kent. UK.
From another angle.

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I see King Henry VIII installed a red traffic light to prevent the foreign invaders from going any further.

The lights along with the no entry sign would stop anyone!

I have always been fascinated by all of the talk of the sea rising, etc. Sandwich used to one of the Cinq Ports in 'enery's time. It's about 2 miles inland now. I wonder if that's due to the drop in the level of the oggin! That's the sea, just in case you din't know the the oggin

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Pippan wrote in post #19181132
I see King Henry VIII installed a red traffic light to prevent the foreign invaders from going any further.

Had his head screwed on, did our ‘enery, and he didn’t lose it as easily as his wives seemed to.
It was King George VI who installed the traffic lights when we thought Adolf’s merry men were likely to do a grand tour of our country in 1940.
We’ve now installed a permanent barrier, we call it the M25.

Jonzjob wrote in post #19181135
The lights along with the no entry sign would stop anyone!

I have always been fascinated by all of the talk of the sea rising, etc. Sandwich used to one of the Cinq Ports in 'enery's time. It's about 2 miles inland now. I wonder if that's due to the drop in the level of the oggin! That's the sea, just in case you din't know the the oggin

https://www.urbandicti​onary.com/define.php?t​erm=oggin

Yes John, our near neighbours are now stealing our ocean, as well as our fish!

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19181173
Had his head screwed on, did our ‘enery, and he didn’t lose it as easily as his wives seemed to.
It was King George VI who installed the traffic lights when we thought Adolf’s merry men were likely to do a grand tour of our country in 1940.
We’ve now installed a permanent barrier, we call it the M25.

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Innit noice when family comes visiting - better even to see them leave.

A friend of ours always used to say that visiting family are like fish, lovely to see at first then after a few days good to see the back of

Fort-la-Latte, Northern Brittany. Taken from the very top of the keep. The fort that was featured in the 1952 film The Vikings. Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.

Looks like a very photogenic place!

Brattina1221 wrote in post #19182010
Looks like a very photogenic place!

Thanks Blake. Thanks for your comment. There are lots of nice photogenic villages around the UK, but familiarity breeds contempt and the nice pictures can easily get overlooked and never further than magnetised particles or electric charges on an HDD or SSD.
I am just going through my files and turning some of my previous shots into interesting pictures with a bit of history attached. I hope I am succeeding.
Regards

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19182042

Brattina1221 wrote in post #19182010
Looks like a very photogenic place!

Thanks Blake. Thanks for your comment. There are lots of nice photogenic villages around the UK, but familiarity breeds contempt and the nice pictures can easily get overlooked and never further than magnetised particles or electric charges on an HDD or SSD.
I am just going through my files and turning some of my previous shots into interesting pictures with a bit of history attached. I hope I am succeeding.
Regards

Any history attached is a very good thing!

Dunure Castle, Scotland

Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany. Scan from a point and shoot camera negative, May 1987.

Clifford Tower in York.