Wednesday 22 August 2007

IOW Carisbrooke Castle

Our last day today and we decided that as the weather was once again pants to visit Carisbrooke Castle.






One of the two facts I knew about Carisbrooke before I went there today was that King Charles I was held there as a prisoner before his execution in 1849. He tried to escape one night, but having failed to prepare successfully got his head stuck between the railings and had to wait until dawn to be saved then re-imprisoned.


The only other thing that I knew about Carisbrooke Castle is that they have a very deep well and since the early 13th Century have used a donkey on a wheel to bring up 10 gallon buckets. Nowadays the donkeys are just used for demonstration purposes and bring up empty buckets. They work for approx 8 minutes every other day. Not a bad life!!

















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