Our first stop was at historic Raglan Castle. Raglan Castle is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales.
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| Brochure/Ticket |
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| Postcard - Raglan Castle |
It played a key part in the struggles between the Welsh and Norman English, and the English Civil War.
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| Postcard - Tintern Abbey |
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| Postcard - Inside Tintern Abbey |
Very little remains of the first buildings; a few sections of walling are incorporated into later buildings and the two recessed cupboards for books on the east of the cloisters are from this period. The church of that time was smaller than the present building and was slightly to the north.
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| Postcard - B&W photographic print |
Interestingly for me, one of the postcards is an original black & white photographic print (slightly damaged now and similar to the one of West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire).
We drove further into Wales, and stopped in LLandovery in Southern Wales before heading north.
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| British Rail Poster |
We drove to Aberystwyth on the north-west coast which is a port and university city as well as a summer tourist attraction.It wasn't quite as sunny as the postcards (well, it hardly ever is anywhere) but it was a welcome break to see the ocean again.
Maybe it's an Australian thing, but we love being near the water.
The Lettercard is a fold-out set of postcards printed on very light paper that could be sent through the post as a postcard.
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| Postcard - The Promenade |
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| Postcard - The Promenade & College |
After driving further north we drove through the Welsh countryside towards Shrewsbury in Shropshire. It's famous for its Tudor and Georgian architecture and has contains hundreds of heritage listed buildings.This is where Dorknock Homes and his sidekick Watkins attempt to locate and apprehend the dangerous "Shropshire Slasher"
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| PC_ Shrewsbury's Heritage Pub Crawl |
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| Rowley's House museum B&W Photo Print Postcard |
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| Rowley's House museum Note the bus-stop has gone (Internet) |
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| Danielle and the Bug |
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| Danielle and the Bug in Shrewsbury |
We limped into Shrewsbury and left the car with a Bond dealer for an estimate to repair the damage.
From there, we hitched to London and stayed with a friend Ruth at the Women's Centre. On the 21st of August we caught bus to Reading for the Rock Festival and stayed two days.
From there, we hitched back to Shrewsbury, stayed with friends Carol and Nigel. We decided to sell the car because of the high repair cos (even though the damage was not structural, and continued our travels by public transport. Read the full story here.
