The Cordova daily times., 1920-02-18

Castle.
 TOT calmon near the upper part of the
 bastions. The entrance from the land
 ward side was by drawbridge and
 strong machicolated gateway. Within 1 each castle was 8 we'll. The bastion
 walls were 20 feet thick below and II 1 ably one Steven von Haschenperg. l The garrison of Walmer consisted of
 captain, lieutenant, two porters, ten ] gunners and four soldiers.
 Less than a century later we read 1 of Wa|mer castle as much decayed and l threatened by the sea at high tides i; l moreover, rain drives into the rooms and powder houses. the gate is decayed
 with loose stones hanging over," and so forth. It was presumably patched
 up. During the Civil war the castles
 changed hands more than once. Wal
 mer was besieged by Parliament troops
 iE 1648. and held out for month be- fore surrendering. It was much spoiled with the granades" but the repairs were only estimated to cost f3OO. The castles continued to be of
 military importance throughout the seventeenth century.
 Additions by Lord Wardens. The first lord warden to make Wal mer castle his residence was the duke of Dorset, appointed in 17O8 and again in 1727. About 1730 he made various alterations and additions to the old structure to provide the necessary &C., commodation for household; further considerable additions were made by MT. Pitt, the earl of Liverpool, and Earl Granville. Apart from certain chambers belonging to the original military work and since merely adapt ed to the uses of domestic service, the oldest parts of the existing mansion are the chambers built by the duke of Dorset. Bucks view, dated 1735, shows the general aspect of this build ing. It is raised over the central mass of the castle and follows the outlines of it's walls. There is nothing remark able about the architecture or the dec oration of the rooms. A small central hall, long passage leading through it, with others branching off as con- venience dctated-these are the ele- ments of the plan. The plain stone wall is pierced by oblong sash-win- dows and the crest of the wall is battIemented
 The duke of Dorset's additions were mainly on the sea front, which re- mains much as he left it. I believe the drawing-room was his-a pleasant, sunny chamber-but Lord Granville added to it. Mr. Pitt built the rooms over the southern rampant. Finally, in 1863, Lord Granville added a story containing thirteen rooms over tho gate-house bastion. He also built the tower. The stone employed came from the demolition of Sandown castle. He added to the drawing-room, as an al- cove, the little room fn which it Is as- serted that Nelson and Pitt used ts confer.
 There is nothing stately or impress sfve about the aspect of the interior, but the irregularity of tFre plan adds to the effect of domestic comfort and pri- vacy which pervades the house: One can easily understand how successive families have become attached to it. Externally there are several quite in- pressfve points of view, chiefly those which command the massive and pre- cipitous walls rising from the moat. One of the walls, pulled down on the occasion of Queen Victoria's visit to- make a new dining-room, was soon afterward rebuilt. Talleyrand when he visited Walmer insisted on sleeping in Pitts room.