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Topic: secret passages
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walnuts9 Member
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posted 02-10-99 10:23 AM
greetings fellow castle lovers! I have an intrest and I hope some of you can help me out. I am very interested in learning about exsisting castles and legendary castles with secret passages, hidden rooms, trap doors and things of that nature.I am so interested in finding out why they were used, where they were found in certain castles, and why they were kept hidden and secret. If you could help me in any way I would greatly appreciate it. thank you!!
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Marion Member
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posted 02-11-99 10:47 AM
Very interesting topic. In the early 70s , I spent some time in Edinburgh Scotland with my brother who was enrolled at Edinburgh University. A good bit of my time was spent exploring the castle there as well as the grounds around it. I was told that the castle had never been stormed or breached. However, a young prince, that had grown up in the castle, took some soldiers and was able to sneak into the castle undetected. He did this to prove that the castle was indeed vulnerable to attack. If anyone knows more about this incident (how he got in), please post it.
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Levan Moderator
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posted 03-05-99 03:08 AM
Many castles in Britain had secret passages to enable escape of Catholics during the Reformation. Traquair in Scotland is one such example. Also, South Wingfield Manor in Derbyshire had an extremely long tunnel out of the Castle, some suggest to enable the escape of Mary Queen of Scots who was imprisoned there.Castle Levan (Gourock), has a staircase hidden within the thickness of the walls leading from the Great Hall to one of the lower vaulted stores. Mind you, it's fully visible now-a-days as the main entrance has been moved from the first floor to the ground floor! ------------------ T Graham Hayward Laird of Castle Levan Gourock, Scotland UK
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