Castles

With great difficulty.

It was not so much destroyed as fell into decline.

After the English civil war part of it was torn down as it had been used by Royalists and they wished to make it unusable. Of course the bulk of it remained but with no money and loss of interest it started to deteriorate. it fell into the corporation of Liverpool's hands and for while the poor used it building shanty like housing in it.

After awhile it was deemed an eyesore. In those days they had little interest in maintaining and restoring buildings such of these so they tore it down and built a church. This church was replaced by a second and then eventually it was replaced by the Victoria memorial we have today.

Machinations are small holes in the roof of the castle used to drop fire heated objects such as sand or clay to attack the enemies and sometimes they would even drop arrows. This resulted in a painful, miserable death if you weren't fast enough!

The toilet/latrine room adjacent to the main bedchamber (I think).

it is a big booger

ha

Because lugwig 2 wanted to create harmony between the naturel environment and the building itself(btw the guy is crazy) Also another name for the castle is the "fariytale Castle"

Nowadays, it is very old and crumbly, but it is safe to go inside.

Somewhere high like on a hill, because in times when William The Conqueror was king he need it a far a possible so it was hard for the people to rebel on him.

Because he hooked up with linds whom mineusthebair is jealous of.

no

Yes, many.

straw

nnn

King Henry VIII did not build castles (despite many of them having that incorrect title today) - he built artillery forts. These were a stage beyond castles, with artillery guns as the main weapon of defence backed up by early firearms. These forts were built in layers of squat, curved walls, each layer smaller than the one below (like a wedding cake), with gun ports facing in every direction.

These forts, together with defensive earthworks and isolated blockhouses, were constructed in two phases: 1539 and 1544.

new york

stuff

At the bottom of the page, go to the Construction Menu. After civil, military, etc. you should see a tab called "battlements" I forget what level you have to be, but the first upgrade in the battlements tab is castle wall upgrade to level 2.

Hope this helps!!

It depends on how it is designed and what you put in it.

The portcullis, often there are two by letting attackers in the first but closing off the second and then dropping the first they could be trapped.

Kitchens were frequently separate structures in the middle ages, both in castles and sometimes in town homes as well. This probably was for fire safety. It may also be due to the fact that kitchens were seen as utilitarian structures in the middle ages. Only the wealthy had a separate kitchen (most common people cooked at a fireplace or a central hearth). Those who could afford a kitchen could also afford servants to cook. In a sense the kitchen was the cook's workshop, and may have been removed from the social areas and private quarters of the main residence as such. People did not socialize in kitchens or entertain guests there, as might happen in a modern home.

-----

Chimneys were invented in the 12th century in northern Europe, and did not catch on very fast because they were expensive and required maintenance. The result was that most castles, and other buildings, of the Middle Ages did not have chimneys. Since a fireplace requires a chimney, there were also no fireplaces in most buildings. This presented quite a problem for the medieval builder. The solution usually used was to put a fire on a hearth in the middle of a big room, the great hall, and let the rest of the building be left unheated. Smoke went out through a hole in the roof, or large open windows.

Kitchens represented a special problem for dealing with smoke. In a castle or monastery, there was the potential to have a lot of people to feed, and this meant a lot of fuel was being used. A lot of smoke was produced, and this had to be ventilated. Usually, the kitchen was a separate building with very large open windows for that reason.

There was an alternative, and some castles and manor houses used it. This was to have a hearth set up beneath a plaster structure that gathered the smoke and vented it through a hole in a wall or in the roof. The structure was called a smoke canopy. It made possible a kitchen hearth placed against a wall, and with this setup it looked a bit like a fireplace with a chimney.

Some castles or manor houses had multiple kitchens, each for a different purpose. One typical setup was to roast meat in one kitchen in a separate building or outdoors, bake bread in an oven either in a separate building or outdoors, and have different kitchens for different purposes in rooms of the house or castle, as venting situations allowed.

There is a link below to an article on the smoke canopy, with a picture of one.

Yes

Gatehouse

Windows in a castle in the middle ages were rare. On the second floor, where the royal family stayed, there might be a few windows. The only other window like things were small openings in the wall for arrows to be shot at enemies.

Not sure. Think it is motte and Bailey. But don't know.