Dunster Castle, Somerset. National Trust, a great old pile. Three items of interest: one, the sea used to come up to the castle walls and due to diversions of waterways it is now one and half miles or so distant, and this land therefore floods--Toowoomba City Council take note. Two, there is a copy of a Hogart print on one wall that has the word 'prostitute' etched out of Hogarth's title. The Castle has been there forever and there were some edgy paintings from an earlier era but someone has thought better of Hogarth's phrasing. Three, more canon balls-the Castle fell to both Royalist or Parliamentary forces during the Civil War.
The white puff in the background is the steam from the West Somerset Rail going past.
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