Edited by Steven Oliver, Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 19:46
Not sure if Book 2 of A223 will be as 'Yorkshire-centric' 🙂, but had a lovely (and tasty) 'Chapter 8' visit to Skipton [5/12/2024], with a chance to have some excellent flapjack whilst looking at a replica of 'The Great Picture' in the castle tearoom.
As the chapter explains, Lady Anne invested in a lot of rebuilding of her reclaimed properties after the Civil War. The second level of these towers were reconstructed, but had to be built too thin for the roof to support cannon! (The castle had very successfully resisted Parliamentarian siege during the war)
One very tangible measure of the passage of time is that Anne had a yew tree planted in the central courtyard to mark the completion of the rebuild. It is now quite a spectacle.
She also had the local parish church repaired, those windows she had replaced were marked with the date and her initials - by then in 1655 after her second marriage - Anne, Lady Pembroke.
She also paid for the magnificent tomb in the church for her father George - despite the will he made and all the trouble it caused her.Â
This smaller tomb is for her younger brother Francis (the taller boy in the picture) who died aged 5.
There was a striking memorial board in the church to all the charitable donations that supported the poor of Skipton, which was a timely reminder of a TMA I needed to complete on the 'economy of makeshifts'!
Coffee and flapjack with Lady Anne
Not sure if Book 2 of A223 will be as 'Yorkshire-centric' 🙂, but had a lovely (and tasty) 'Chapter 8' visit to Skipton [5/12/2024], with a chance to have some excellent flapjack whilst looking at a replica of 'The Great Picture' in the castle tearoom.
As the chapter explains, Lady Anne invested in a lot of rebuilding of her reclaimed properties after the Civil War. The second level of these towers were reconstructed, but had to be built too thin for the roof to support cannon! (The castle had very successfully resisted Parliamentarian siege during the war)
One very tangible measure of the passage of time is that Anne had a yew tree planted in the central courtyard to mark the completion of the rebuild. It is now quite a spectacle.
She also had the local parish church repaired, those windows she had replaced were marked with the date and her initials - by then in 1655 after her second marriage - Anne, Lady Pembroke.
She also paid for the magnificent tomb in the church for her father George - despite the will he made and all the trouble it caused her.Â
This smaller tomb is for her younger brother Francis (the taller boy in the picture) who died aged 5.
There was a striking memorial board in the church to all the charitable donations that supported the poor of Skipton, which was a timely reminder of a TMA I needed to complete on the 'economy of makeshifts'!