We had a sweet tooth for
last week's Sunday Snap which featured the birthplace of a famous
Derbyshire
pudding. I asked which town the pudding was named after and the
answer is
Bakewell
For this week I've paid a
visit the town of my fathers – Newark. This Nottinghamshire town is
known for two things – a once thriving brewery industry (my
great-great-grandfather owned the Cromwell Brewery in Newark) and its
ruined castle. The original parts of the castle date from the 12th
century. It didn't have the most auspicious start to its history as
in 1216 King John died in the castle after contracting dysentery. The
most important period of its history was its role in the English
Civil War. The town came under siege three times and was completely
cut off from other towns for six months before eventually
surrendering in 1646. The castle was 'slighted' or deliberately
destroyed in order in make it unusable for future campaigns. In the
1840s the castle was partly restored using some modern bricks but it
largely remains a shell. Newark Castle is now both a Scheduled
Ancient Monument as a nationally important historic building and a
Grade I listed building. For this week's question I'm going to give
you a 50/50 chance of getting it right!
Was Newark a Royalist or
Parliamentarian town during the Civil War?
We were joined last week by
Cheryl
and a giant gingerbread man. Kara has been viewing the big
wheel and the bath
tub race. For Susan
there has been baking and birthdays.
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Royalist I believe :)
ReplyDeleteI have a 50-50 chance for this one so I'll try Royalist ! :)
ReplyDeleteRoyalist (totally just copying above as have no idea) hehehe!
ReplyDeleteHave no idea sorry, going to be a sheep and go with everyone else - Royalist. FYI say this linky on Susan's blog and thought I'd join in :)
ReplyDeleteAww you featured my home time last week! Newark is quite close to us now but I've never been to the castle, must go there sometime x
ReplyDeleteIt's Royalist! I've never been to this castle though:-)
ReplyDeleteI love castles. I think this is Royalist. I have been there but not for years. It's beautiful x
ReplyDeleteI watched a programme about King John's death a couple of weeks back and I still can't remember! I'll say Royalist though because I know that he travelled there as he was trying to escape from other people while he was ill.
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