Wyatt the Odd  | 08 Aug 2009 9:05 p.m. PST |
Two men have restored a 16th Century fortified manor house in Scotland that was destroyed by Cromwell in 1620. link Wyatt |
| Pictors Studio | 08 Aug 2009 9:23 p.m. PST |
1620! He was pretty busy early on in life. Did he cut loose on a wild bender when he turned 21? :) I didn't even know he had an army that early on. |
| aecurtis | 08 Aug 2009 10:01 p.m. PST |
If only the NYT had a "professional historian" to fact-check these things!  Allen |
| Pictors Studio | 08 Aug 2009 10:27 p.m. PST |
Well you know those Amish can get pretty out of hand even now before they really settle down. Is it not possible that Cromwell's wild partying youth was not wild enough to tear down a small castle. It would certainly make for a great 17th century remake of the Young Ones. |
| Calvin | 08 Aug 2009 11:00 p.m. PST |
Well, you know he did own a tavern and what with all that FREE "courage" available. Besides, you know the revisionist (ie Victorian histories), if there is anything, anywhere amiss in the British Isles Cromwell and the Puritans are to blame! It does get tiresome does it not? SDG |
| The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour | 09 Aug 2009 1:59 a.m. PST |
Fenton Tower. It's been turned into a chichi hotel/ glorified B&B. If you go to the website it gives the correct date for Cromwell's sack of the place. link Bloody awful decor if you ask me. What kind of fool puts a shelf full of plates above a bath anyway? |
| hurrahbro | 09 Aug 2009 2:01 a.m. PST |
1620, that would be about the time James the 1st of England cleared out the Reivers? |
| Griefbringer | 09 Aug 2009 2:47 a.m. PST |
What is 30 years amongst friends? |
| Neotacha | 09 Aug 2009 4:38 a.m. PST |
Could have been an error (typographical or otherwise) on the part of the reporter. If one reads the news these days one needn't read far to discover that proof-reading is one of those ancient artisan skills no longer taught. |
| RABeery | 09 Aug 2009 8:30 a.m. PST |
What next, restoring the Atlantic Wall destroyed by Churchhill and FDR in 1944? |
| huevans | 09 Aug 2009 9:59 a.m. PST |
I contacted the publisher and indeed, it was a typo. The text should read Oliver BROMWELL. Oliver – or "Obie" as he liked to be called – was an engineering student at the University of Edinburgh. When his parents went off for the summer vacation to their holiday condo on the sunny Morayshire coast, Obie invited his frat brothers to his home for the biggest "kegger" ever held in the lowlands. At first, everything went well. There was limited damage, except to the Bromwell family cat which was somehow drowned in a vat of mead. But around 3 AM, the highlanders arrived and crashed the party. Things got wild and ugly by turns. The strippers fled and it turned out that Angus MacAngus – one of the party-crashers – had just served 6 months in the Inverness stocks for arson and had a "firebug problem". None of this really explains how the stone walls were wrecked, but you get the idea….. On the upside, Obie became a teetotal Calvinist and fought for the Covenanters against Montrose. It was said that he always had a pronounced dislike of highlanders which is perhaps understandable in the circumstances. |
| Lapsed Pacifist | 09 Aug 2009 5:18 p.m. PST |
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 Silurian  | 10 Aug 2009 6:21 a.m. PST |
Nice restoration (even though ruins have a certain charm).
Is there a Cromwell Suite? |
