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Bog'liq Listening transcripts 230531 122425Visit to Branley Castle
We’ll be arriving at Branley Castle in about five minutes, but before we get there I’ll give you a little
information about the castle and what our visit will include.
So in fact there’s been a castle on this site for over eleven hundred years. The first building was a fort
constructed in 914 AD for defence against Danish invaders by King Alfred the Great’s daughter, who
ruled England at the time. In the following century, after the Normans conquered England, the land was
given to a nobleman called Richard de Vere, and he built a castle there that stayed in the de Vere family
for over four hundred years.
However, when Queen Elizabeth I announced that she was going to visit the castle in 1576 it was beginning
to look a bit run down, and it was decided that rather than repair the guest rooms,
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they’d make a
new house for her out of wood next to the main hall. She stayed there for four nights and apparently it
was very luxurious, but unfortunately it was destroyed a few years later by fire.
In the seventeenth century the castle belonged to the wealthy Fenys family, who enlarged it and made it
more comfortable. However, by 1982 the Fenys family could no longer afford to maintain the castle, even
though they received government support, and they put it on the market. It was eventually taken over by
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a company who owned a number of amusement parks, but when we get there I think you’ll see
that they’ve managed to retain the original atmosphere of the castle.
When you go inside, you’ll find that in the state rooms
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there are life-like moving wax models
dressed in costumes of different periods in the past, which even carry on conversations together. As
well as that, in every room there are booklets giving information about what the room was used for and
the history of the objects and furniture it contains.
The castle park’s quite extensive. At one time sheep were kept there, and in the nineteenth century the
owners had a little zoo with animals like rabbits and even a baby elephant. Nowadays the old zoo buildings
are used for
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