Technically taken a day earlier than the week's challenge, but I am collecting far too many images that I would like to post, and upon reflection, considered this to be most appropriate image for the theme of 'forsaken'.
Whilst no longer restricted to posting in black and white, I felt that the colour free version was the one I liked best for this purpose.
Houghton House was built in the early 17th century by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, as an elaborate hunting lodge.The house may have been the inspiration for the ‘Palace Beautiful’ in the 17th-century Christian writer John Bunyan’s religious epic, The Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1738 the 4th Duke of Bedford bought Houghton. His son, the Marquis of Tavistock, lived there from 1764 until he died in a hunting accident in 1767.
The 5th Duke of Bedford rented the hunting park to a neighbour. Subsequently unable to let the house without the park, he ordered Houghton to be dismantled in 1794. The interior was completely gutted, leaving no hint of its former glory.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/houghton-house/history/
great, i dont have such opportunities here, such a short history in new zealand, i think that is the thing with the dogwood challenge, you dont really have to do them all in the exact week...at least that is what i am telling myself, but i am likely to get so behind i forget!
