Carisbrooke Castle

 Sid and Jade went to Carisbrooke Castle

Carisbrooke Castle is amazing, there's so much to see. It's been an artillery fortress, king's prison and a royal summer residence for over 1,000 years.

They started in the Princess Beatrice Garden

In the middle of the garden is a Statue of 1st World War General Jack Seely who used to live on the Island. He's pretty famous, but his horse, Warrior, who is better known as War Horse.

Sid and Jade had to pose for a photo standing on Warrior.

 

 Carisbrooke Castle is famous for other 4-legged animals. Donkeys are used to turn the treadmill in the well house.....

..... which used to bring water into the castle. Nowadays the donkeys only walk in the treadmill for a couple of minutes, they don't bring big heavy buckets of water 49meters from the stream below.

Next they went into the museum which had this amazing 4-poster bed. "Coooeeee, we're down here," shouted Sid......

..."It's a great place to climb!".

They found an amazing old clock.....

"Down here", shouted Jade.

The museum had the contents of a very old dolls house...

.... a very old jigsaw...

a strange old game

.... some old toys...

..... some of which are very iconic.

There's a brilliant scale model of the castle......

And to finish off, an ancient cannon. "This is great, I love old military history", said Sid. 

 

"Hmmmm", thought Jade. "I'll have to have a chat to MaC and see if we can take Sid somewhere very special...".