Little Castle

I haven`t much in the artsy way to show off

yet . . I am on with a few projects and my

creative and blog time has been limited the past few

days now - with bad headaches .

However i do have a place we visited a few

weeks back ...

Bolsover Castle - in Derbyshire .

Dating from the 12th century , and the only thing

left in tact is the Little Castle , Venus garden ,

and some stables undergoing renovation .

The view from the castle ..

What it would have looked like .

We walked in from the left handside -

The Little Castle and Venus Garden is on

the far right handside

The entrance to the Little castle

Outside back view from the Venus Garden

Looking down from the Little castle into the garden

which had many alcoves with love seats .

To say it was called The Little castle -

is an understatement ! It had many tiny rooms and

stone stairs - and what`s more - i got to take some

inside photographs ! Which is very rare - even in stately

homes - photography is banned . It was unmanned as well

but had CCTV - as there were many large oil paintings hung

and i found it odd , that no-one was there just to keep

an eye on things .

So here`s a selection of my best shots as

some of the rooms were very darkly decorated .

Every room - had a corner fireplace like this -

No central heating in those days !

And my favourite - a gorgeous painted cherub room

Just a short video of the fountain . The

only original piece - is theVenus staue on the top

and the rest is restoration - of how it would have looked .