On my recent visit to Newcastle Keep (a quite marvellous place, BTW), I turned a corner and was surprised to fall upon the structure's 'Well Room'. How strange - and how wonderful - I thought. This magnificent piece of medieval engineering is accompanied by the following modest information panel:
Now I was going to do a bit of research and find out as much as I could about the keep's life-saving feature, but soon came upon a nice little article from Ales Iles' blog, which rendered my plan somewhat redundant. So do check it out - and indeed have a browse of the rest of Mr Iles' website, where there is plenty to interest the history-mad Novocastrian.
But you really must visit the castle keep for yourself, too, though. Check out their website at www.newcastlecastle.co.uk
