More of my 127 mm black and white negatives (colour added in Photoshop) and this is the climb up the motte at Sandal Castle in 1964.
This is looking back to the south-east across the bailey with the ruins of the Great Hall on the left and the Presence Chamber on the right, with the houses along Manygates Lane, Sandal, beyond.
Milnthorpe Woods lay in that direction along the ridge and it has been suggested that this was the weak point for the castle, the route the Lancastrian force from Pontefract Castle was likely to have taken when they attacked the castle in the Battle of Wakefield, on 30 December, 1460.
Link
Sandal Castle
Sandal Castle my illustrated guide
Paperback, 32 pages,
black and white, £2.95, post free in the UK.
Thornes Park
Also available in the same format, £2.99:
Thornes Park, where there was once an unlicensed castle, perhaps a bit of rival to Sandal.
