Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland - Dixon postcard c.1970s
- Condition : Used
- Dispatch : 2 Days
- Brand : None
- ID# : 93648230
- Quantity : 1 item
- Views : 355
- Location : United Kingdom
- Seller : justthebook (+1694)
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- Start : Sat 23 Feb 2013 15:49:53 (EDT)
- Close : Run Until Sold
- Remain : Run Until Sold
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- Postcard
- Picture / Image: Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
- Publisher: J Arthur Dixon (Northumberland 749)
- Postally used: yes
- Stamp: 6&half p. blue Machin.
- Postmark(s): Bamburgh 1976? cds
- Sent to: Thorpe St Andrews, Norwich, Norfolk
- Notes / condition:
Please ask if you need any other information and I will do the best I can to answer.
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Postage & Packing:
UK (incl. IOM, CI & BFPO): 99p
Europe: £1.60
Rest of world (inc. USA etc): £2.75
No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).
Payment Methods:
UK - PayPal, Cheque (from UK bank) or postal order
Outside UK: PayPal ONLY (unless otherwise stated) please. NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).
NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!
I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not work) :
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Bamburgh Castle is located on the coast at Bamburgh in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]
Built on a basalt outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the native Britons known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the British kingdom of the region (see Gododdin, Bryneich and Hen Ogledd)[2] from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. In that year the citadel was captured by the Anglo-Saxon ruler Ida of Bernicia (Beornice) and became Ida's seat. It was briefly retaken by the Britons from his son Hussa during the war of 590 before being relieved later the same year.
His grandson Æðelfriþ passed it on to his wife Bebba, from whom the early name Bebbanburgh was derived. The Vikings destroyed the original fortification in 993.
The Normans built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. William II unsuccessfully besieged it in 1095 during a revolt supported by its owner, Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria. After Robert was captured, his wife continued the defence until coerced to surrender by the king's threat to blind her husband.
Bamburgh then became the property of the reigning English monarch. Henry II probably built the keep. As an important English outpost, the castle was the target of occasional raids from Scotland. In 1464 during the Wars of the Roses, it became the first castle in England to be defeated by artillery, at the end of a nine-month siege by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.
type=printed postcards
theme=topographical: british
sub-theme=england
county/ country=northumberland
number of items=single
period=1945 - present
postage condition=posted
Listing Information
| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 93648230 |
| Start Time | Sat 23 Feb 2013 15:49:53 (EDT) |
| Close Time | Run Until Sold |
| Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
| Item Condition | Used |
| Bids | 0 |
| Views | 355 |
| Dispatch Time | 2 Days |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Auto Extend | No |
