...waiting for the sun!! Brrr! Yes it was a bit chilly the day we went to
Chirk Castle with my parents! You wouldn't think it was the end of May! The castle is 700 years old & was built for King Edward I. It is now owned by The National Trust but is the ancestral home of the Myddleton family (who happen to be friends of my parents!!) who bought it for £5,000 in 1595! The family still live in the castle with their children. What a fantastic place to grow up eh? Although I'm told by my mum that Mr Myddleton detested living there as a boy because it was cold & damp! I guess you can't double glaze the windows in a castle...
The boys loved stroking the new born lamb outside.
It was a big long walk up to the castle through woodland. Timmy loved looking out across the countryside where, apparently you can view 9 counties! He pointed down to the road we had just walked up from & said it was a secret place to hide the cars.
Just behind everyone on this photo is a corridor with lots of stairs leading up to a little back door into the castle! the boys were very taken with the secret way inside!
We went into the castle through the main door though & entered the enormous courtyard...
...with the tower & dungeons (as well as the coffee shop!). There is a stone 'toilet' (garde robe I think is the proper name) in the tower which Timmy loved looking down but Luke was terrified of & just about managed to walk into the corridor where the loo was! (I forgot to upload the piccie of Timmy admiring it & Luke dashing away- sorry!! It was quite comical though!). I think I'm with Luke on the matter it has to be said!
The boys enjoyed a turn in the stocks! They loved making grumpy faces for me to photograph!
This little door slides upwards & reveals a thin slide down into the dungeons! Quite a scary thought to think that once people would have literally been thrown down there into the dark damp dungeon! Not quite sure how they got out.....or if they were meant to!!
Through the courtyard you can view some of the rooms inside the castle (no photographs allowed though). There are fabulous staircases, portraits of the castle's ancestors & Timmy's favourite, the King's bedroom! It's quite a small room decorated in very dark red wallpaper with a curtained four poster bed & a large 'saucepan'! Actually, it's the tin bath but Timmy is convinced it's a saucepan & no amount of telling him will make him change his mind on the matter! (I think that's partly to do with the fact he likes the laughs he gets when he tells adults it's a saucepan!)
One of the rooms inside the castle is full of dressing up clothes & artifacts for the children to play with. We had fun trying on some of the outfits! Jordan loved seeing the old kitchen things as he has been learning all about life in the olden days at school.
It was a lovely afternoon although extremely cold & windy! Annie enjoyed cuddles with her Grandad & the boys had great fun playing & exploring even though (as it turns out later in the week) they were all coming down with a nasty sickness bug! Next time we go we hope to explore the castle's ornamental gardens provided the weather is more favourable.
...waiting for the sun!! Brrr! Yes it was a bit chilly the day we went to Chirk Castle with my parents! You wouldn't think it was the end of May! The castle is 700 years old & was built for King Edward I. It is now owned by The National Trust but is the ancestral home of the Myddleton family (who happen to be friends of my parents!!) who bought it for £5,000 in 1595! The family still live in the castle with their children. What a fantastic place to grow up eh? Although I'm told by my mum that Mr Myddleton detested living there as a boy because it was cold & damp! I guess you can't double glaze the windows in a castle...
The boys loved stroking the new born lamb outside.
It was a big long walk up to the castle through woodland. Timmy loved looking out across the countryside where, apparently you can view 9 counties! He pointed down to the road we had just walked up from & said it was a secret place to hide the cars.
Just behind everyone on this photo is a corridor with lots of stairs leading up to a little back door into the castle! the boys were very taken with the secret way inside!
We went into the castle through the main door though & entered the enormous courtyard...
...with the tower & dungeons (as well as the coffee shop!). There is a stone 'toilet' (garde robe I think is the proper name) in the tower which Timmy loved looking down but Luke was terrified of & just about managed to walk into the corridor where the loo was! (I forgot to upload the piccie of Timmy admiring it & Luke dashing away- sorry!! It was quite comical though!). I think I'm with Luke on the matter it has to be said!
The boys enjoyed a turn in the stocks! They loved making grumpy faces for me to photograph!
This little door slides upwards & reveals a thin slide down into the dungeons! Quite a scary thought to think that once people would have literally been thrown down there into the dark damp dungeon! Not quite sure how they got out.....or if they were meant to!!
Through the courtyard you can view some of the rooms inside the castle (no photographs allowed though). There are fabulous staircases, portraits of the castle's ancestors & Timmy's favourite, the King's bedroom! It's quite a small room decorated in very dark red wallpaper with a curtained four poster bed & a large 'saucepan'! Actually, it's the tin bath but Timmy is convinced it's a saucepan & no amount of telling him will make him change his mind on the matter! (I think that's partly to do with the fact he likes the laughs he gets when he tells adults it's a saucepan!)
One of the rooms inside the castle is full of dressing up clothes & artifacts for the children to play with. We had fun trying on some of the outfits! Jordan loved seeing the old kitchen things as he has been learning all about life in the olden days at school.
It was a lovely afternoon although extremely cold & windy! Annie enjoyed cuddles with her Grandad & the boys had great fun playing & exploring even though (as it turns out later in the week) they were all coming down with a nasty sickness bug! Next time we go we hope to explore the castle's ornamental gardens provided the weather is more favourable.
6 comments:
ooooh, I love castles! The older, the better. I love to imagine how it was to live back then, what they wore, what they ate, how they lived ...
Looks like you all had a great time!
Wow!! That is so cool! Love your wonderful photos and the one of the boys in the stocks is just too cute!
Wow im so jealous too, i just love castles, not that i fancy growing up in one thats for sure! x x x x
Looks like you all had loads of fun. You've totally made me want to go. My mom's here in a couple weeks, so maybe we'll have to take her!
Ooh that looked like so much fun! I haven't been to any castles for years my kids would love a trip there! xxx
The pics and info are very interesting! I suppose you can have poetic licence in quoting the Beatles! It's actually sitting in a Welsh garden!
Glad to be able to see your blog on our Mac now we're home from our holiday! John's lap top was too small!
Love Mum xx
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