REEDS AND CASTLE

If you peer through the mist you can see the remains of one of Henry Vlll's castles (Sandsfoot). 

Three posts mid-distance used to hold a notice warning people of torpedo testing. 

And the reeds in the foreground edge what used to be a railway line between Weymouth and Portland.

Torpedoes and the Railway - The Encyclopedia of Portland History
Sandsfoot Castle - Wikipedia
Hills in the distance are part of the South Dorset Ridgeway

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MASTS AND CASTLE

With small beach.

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BEYOND THE ARCH

For more about Sandsfoot Castle in Dorset, see my other blog, Loose and Leafy.

Plants on the Walls

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RED VALERIAN ON SANDSFOOT CASTLE

Sandsfoot Castle mid-sixteenth century; small and in ruins - with hunks of masonry fallen to the beach at the foot of the cliff.
Red Valerian - Centranthus ruber

There are more plants from Sandsfoot on my other blog, Loose and Leafy.

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IF ONLY KING HENRY HAD READ THE NOTICE!

This is Sandsfoot Castle. It was built in the time of Henry V111 but began to fall into disrepair as early as the 1640s.

It is now being worked on before it falls down completely.

Old stones. Modern scaffolding. New notice. If only King Henry had been able to see that 'don't do it' notice at the time - just think how different history would have been!

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