Volume: Pickering Castle

Date:: 1926 - 1975

Location:: Pickering Castle, Pickering, North Yorkshire

Reference:: AL0856

Type:: Volume containing Photographic and Graphic material

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Description

An album of 24 pages containing 42 prints, three postcards and one plan of the castle. There is a postcard missing from page 2 but the caption remains attached.

All the images are general views of the castle and its component buildings. There are sets from the 1950s and the late 20s/early 30s and a series of prints from Ministry of Works postcard negatives. The castle was taken into care in 1926 and both sets show it in a cleared, consolidated state with just one view from before clearance.

All the photographs have been placed under a general location of Pickering Castle, even when they show particular components. This is for three reason, firstly the small number makes this a searchable group. Secondly all the buildings are attached to each other by walls and it is seldom that a photograph of one does not have other parts of the castle in the background.

Lastly multiple names exist for different parts of the castle and at sometime in the eighteenth century the names for the towers became confused. Rosamunds Tower and Diate (or Devils) Tower are two of the outer towers but both names have been used for either. So at the start of the album Rosamunds Tower refers to the tower in the south east corner, while in later photographs this name refers to the postern tower on the east side. Earlier captions had previously been corrected in the album to this later usage.

Although it would be usual to caption with the name originally given to the print and put the modern name in as a subsequent or former location name the confusion potentially generated in this case makes this unsatisfactory. Thus the names and usage given in the corrections and current guidebooks has been used throughout these records to avoid confusion and scope/content notes identify where the original caption varied.

Content

This is part of the Series: OWS01/01 The 'Blue Albums'; within the Collection: OWS01 Office of Works and Successors: Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings

This Volume is divided into 46 Child Records

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Postcard - Photographic): 3

Photograph (Print): 42

Photograph Album: 1

Measured Drawing: 1

Rights

Keywords

Medieval Motte And Bailey, Medieval Castle, Derelict Or Ruin