16 August 2007
Collecting Eleanor
Posted by Alison under: BlahBlahBlah; Eleanor; History; Photos .
As most of you will know who read this blog regularly, I am interested in all thing Eleanor of Castile. About 2 years ago I starting collecting books and photographs of Eleanor and her memorials, my favourites being old engravings. These have usually come from antique books, and I love to find really unusual ones.
The earliest one I have of the Geddington Cross dates from the 1700s I think, but the dated ones come from 1800-1820 to 1878. Once I have recorded all these, they will be transferred over to my website. A process I have long neglected, I now have the time to work on it, so hopefully you will see great improvements soon!
2 Comments so far...
carol Says:
9 October 2007 at 4:19 pm.
At last, someone else who has fallen under Eleanor’s spell!!! I have two sites left then I have visited each of the Queens resting places to take photo’s etc for a ’scrapbook’.
Favourite cross is Hardingstone but most impressive/awe inspiring place was standing next to the tomb of Eleanors viscera in Lincoln cathedral.
Look forward to revisiting this site!
Carol.
Alison Says:
9 October 2007 at 8:49 pm.
I’ve been under her spell for many years Carol! Welcome to her blog, I haven’t photographed every stop yet, but as many monuments as survive. Come again soon!
