Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Its my tunnel.


Just a bit of touch up for the post about Webeck Abbey. Got a chance to look up some pictures. It was a really big place. Seems the old abbott of Welbeck had some piastrs.

Here's a few statistics to mull over:

It contained an indoor riding house nearly 400 feet long and over 100 wide, lit by thousands of gas lamps.

There were several tunnels over a thousand feet long leading to, among other things, a riding school, and one tunnel, mentioned in yesterday's post, that was a mile and a half long wide enough for two carriages and led to a rail siding.

Underground rooms abounded. The Great Hall and sometimes picture gallery was 160 feet long. That's the picture gallery above.

And oh yeah, all the rooms were pink. The vast majority of the weird stuff, including the addition of lots of bathrooms, at least one toilet in every room, was the work of the Duke of Bentinck.

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