Barnard Castle, Durham mb-code DCA_116597 'Pictures for Posterity'

'Pictures for Posterity'

'From The Ring Cycle of operas by German composer Richard Wagner

Eartha Kitt backstage at rehearsals for TV play 'Valiant' 7th May 1956

'The judgement of the Queen's Common Sense'

Barnard Castle, Durham mb-code DCA_116597 'Pictures for Posterity'Barnard Castle, Durham, c1905. View of the ruins of the castle overlooking the River Tees. The castle was originally built by the Normans but reached the height of its importance in the second half of the 12th century when it was in the hands of the Balliol family. It later came into the hands of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and passed to King Richard III through his wife, Anne, who was the Earl's daughter. The castle fell into ruin in the 16th