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Dunstanburgh Castle by Ian Scott Massie
Original Watercolour
28" x 36" Mounted size - 22" x 30" Image size
Available: framed @ £1995, unframed @ £1895
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28" x 36" Mounted size - 22" x 30" Image size
Available: framed @ £1995, unframed @ £1895
To shop, please click here
THE GREY LADY OF ALNWICK
Alnwick Castle is known to millions from its use as a film and TV location: three Harry Potters, Blackadder, Elizabeth, Downton Abbey, Transformers - the list goes on. Part of its attraction is that it’s rich in history, legends and ghost stories. What follows is a good example.
At Alnwick Castle, the owners often preferred the servants to be neither seen or heard (except when serving up food and drink). To facilitate this, the castle has a series of tunnels and shafts which allow the labouring classes to stay out of sight, while the ruling class can get on with ruling.
There was a dumb waiter - a rope-operated lift - which moved up and down a vertical shaft allowing food to be sent from the kitchen to rooms far above. During the Victorian period, a young maid accidentally tripped and fell down the shaft. Stunned from her injuries she was to be doubly unfortunate. High above her the rope raising the dumb waiter gave way, sending the lift hurtling down the shaft and crushing her to death.
Shortly after her death, her grey spectre began to appear in the servants corridors. Even in death she plays the part of a servant, never appearing in the castle’s state apartments, but in the service tunnels her grey ghost wanders forever.
At Alnwick Castle, the owners often preferred the servants to be neither seen or heard (except when serving up food and drink). To facilitate this, the castle has a series of tunnels and shafts which allow the labouring classes to stay out of sight, while the ruling class can get on with ruling.
There was a dumb waiter - a rope-operated lift - which moved up and down a vertical shaft allowing food to be sent from the kitchen to rooms far above. During the Victorian period, a young maid accidentally tripped and fell down the shaft. Stunned from her injuries she was to be doubly unfortunate. High above her the rope raising the dumb waiter gave way, sending the lift hurtling down the shaft and crushing her to death.
Shortly after her death, her grey spectre began to appear in the servants corridors. Even in death she plays the part of a servant, never appearing in the castle’s state apartments, but in the service tunnels her grey ghost wanders forever.
How it would look on your wall
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