Saladin's Castle (also known as Sahyun or Saône) in NW Syria, a site fortified from mid 10c & occupied by a local Shia Emir, Byzantines & Crusaders before its capture by Saladin in 1188. The fortifications date largely from the Crusader period. #castlesaturday
"The Oldest Sweet Shop in England" in Pateley Bridge #shopfrontfriday
A handsome 17c chair in the Hall in Raby Castle in County Durham #woodensday
18c Newhailes House (NTS) in Musselburgh: #windowsonwednesday except that those in the east wing (on the right) which housed the library are not real, but only painted on!
In Burgos Cathedral #staircasesaturday
The Church of Ognissanti, rebuilt in the 1620s and one of the earliest examples of Baroque architecture in Florence #adoorablethursday
The entrance to the 18c walled garden at Raby Castle in County Durham #thursgate
Lovely 18c chinoiserie: bed-hangings in Newhailes House (NTS) in Musselburgh. For conservation, it is stored in the dark, and this is all they take out to show you! #textiletuesday
I never realised there was a #thursdaybridges. This is the Royal Border Bridge across the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed. (The border is actually 3 miles further north.) Built in 1847-1850 by Robert Stephenson, son of the railway pioneer George Stephenson.
Ian Ebbage
Ian Ebbage
Ian Ebbage
Ian Ebbage
Out and about #birdwatching in Edinburgh this morning: Duddingstone Loch with a Chiffchaff and Song Thrush; and later a Stock Dove in Figgate Park.
