Made it into the gardens of Lowether Castle today. and spent a lovely 2 hours wandering around in beautiful sunshine. They have done a lot of restoration work on the castle, not to restore it as it was but to stop it deteriorating any more. The castle was closed to the public for over 70 years. During this time the grounds were used for secret tank training during world war two, and the main lawn area covered with concrete. Later a lot of large hen houses were erected on the concrete.Today it is back to beautiful lawn. Much of the gardens were also planted with trees. This view is from an area called Patte D' ole. One of the Earls had been visiting foreign lands and on his return had a water feature built at this location. Today only the base of this feature remains at the bottom of the steps. From this point 3 avenues radiate out. These were all overgrown but have been reinstated. The 'pathway' in the foreground is actually a set of steps constructed from lovely shaped stones. Note the heart shaped one in the front left, there are several of this shape. I posted a picture of the front of the castle in July which can be found here http://365project.org/shirleybankfarm/365/2015-07-19
For anybody who would like to read more about this historic building or see more pictures here are a couple of web sites for you. http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/lowther-castle/# http://www.lowthercastle.org/
@beachdog@ingrid_marianna@lavenderhouse@memoriesbydawn@gijsje@bkbinthecity@deborah63@hermann@pusspup@thresheg@stiggle@barneyone@katrinastabback Thank you for getting this shot onto the PP. It amazes me that they have been able to find so much still in the gardens. The trust have a lot of old photographs showing how it all used to be and this is how they are able to reinstate some of the things like the avenues. The notice board stood in front of the fountain stand at the bottom of the steps is a picture of how the fountain used to look. All around the gardens they have these boards showing how the particular feature used to be.
