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There has been a fortress on this rock since at least the year 547.
It is older than England, older than Islam and older than the Vikings who would eventually destroy it...
This is Bamburgh, on the Northumberland coast, standing on volcanic rock 150 feet above the North Sea. The Britons had a stronghold here called Din Guarie, possibly the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from around 420.
In 547 an Anglian warlord named Ida took it, and that is the moment Bamburgh enters written history. Around the year 600 his grandson Æthelfrith gave the fort to his wife, Bebba. It became Bebbanburh, Bebba's stronghold, and eventually Bamburgh. The castle is named after a woman almost nobody remembers...
It became the royal capital of Northumbria. Vikings destroyed it in 993. The Normans rebuilt it, and in 1464 the Earl of Warwick turned cannon on those walls and broke them, in what is usually described as the first time an English castle fell to artillery.
It sat as a ruin for the next two hundred years, until a bishop's fortune turned it into a charity, with a free school and an infirmary running inside the walls. In 1894 the armaments magnate William Armstrong bought the wreck for £60,000, spent over a million rebuilding it, died before the work was finished, and left it to his family, who own it still.
Nearly fifteen hundred years of kings, raiders and cannon fire, and people are still living in it...
@ColinSpenc4257 My mum still has one and another that you have to build different shapes of people in order. Head in top row, torso 2nd row, hips and thighs 3rd row and feet at the bottom. Good fun.
10-year-old Victory Blinker who set the Guinness World Record for the youngest opera singer in the world, sings Mozart’s 'Der Holle Rache,’ considered one of the most difficult arias to sing.
A video that is currently going viral online: the groom’s friends created an incredible clip for a couple from Kazakhstan using AI.
It shows the lovers as if they had met in different eras and, across centuries, kept finding each other again and again.
The bride’s reaction is priceless.
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.” 🥺🕊️
— Queen Elizabeth II
#RestInPeace#QueenElizabeth🖤
Obviously I support Scotland first and England second. That was an amazing game between England v France. Well done lads you did us proud becoming 3rd in the #worldcup that was an exciting game!!! ⚽️🥉