What a great way to learn more about castles by visiting Claypotts castle.

Our guides were the Strachan family who lived there 450 years ago ( super pupil guides from Claypotts castle primary school ) who told us all about their home.

It was great fun going up and down the spiral staircase. We needed to stay on the “pizza crust” part.

The servants’ stairs were even trickier to use!

We visited the great hall.

The fireplace in the kitchen was huge!

 

We wondered what it would have been like to sleep in a bed with a curtain around it.

In the top room of the castle we saw how the roof was made, listened to a story and played giant’s keys:

Outside we thought that people might have been shorter in the olden days. The door looked quite small and Mrs Taylor only just managed to stand in the doorway without hitting her head.

Outside we found the spy holes:

There was so much to talk about:

There was so many new facts to learn:

There was so much to see:

We gave our outing the thumbs up!