Porchester castle is on the complex coast around the edge of Hampshire. Built around the 11th century on a site that earlier housed a Roman fort. I visited with my daughter and we couldn’t help wondering about the lives of the many people who had lived there. It had a definite feel, a loud whispering of voices in the total silence. Click on an image for a larger view.
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Beautiful ruins Gilly! R would have been more interested in the cricket though 🙂
Hahaha it was a glorious place for cricket, but I don’t get the attraction!
Wonderful pictures! Something that always amazes me about buildings like this (well, really any building more than 150 years old at the very most) is that every bit of the work was done by muscle power – largely men with some help from horses / oxen / maybe donkeys. Those people worked very, very, very hard!
Agree! It amazes me how much was achieved back then.
wow Gilly…I really love that last image…speaks to me it does
Doors, entrances, thresholds all speak to me too!
Fabulous pictures, took me back to my childhood when we walked there most Sundays. Last time we were there, at the bottom of one of the towers a sparrowhawk was feeding on a pigeon it had downed, we just stood there and watched, she ignored us. Fantastic.
What a lovely place to visit and thanks for sharing the memory Reb!
Hi,
Great photos, looks like a fabulous place to explore. I also wonder about the lives of the people that used to live in places like this, just amazing.
Me too Mags and I think most of them would have had hard lives!
a beautiful ruin, so glad these places are kept for us to see and experience, we love to watch Time Team and feel our ancestors were in those ancient places, the human body feels its roots!
Totally agree Christine, the body feels roots and the mind hears voices.
Grandames all, except for the cricket match.
Can’t say I’m a fan of cricket either but it does evoke a certain English summer atmosphere!
Great collection of pictures. Wonderful work.
Thanks Arindam!
What a magic place! Great shots, Gilly!
It was lovely thanks Anne 🙂
Wonderful ruins. I love visiting such historic places. Fascinating.
Thank you so much 🙂