Talk:Peckforton Castle

message: :Done. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:51, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: The following uncited section was moved from the article:
"The last resident was Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache, who left the house to live in Eastbourne ...The Tollemache family used the castle for occasional gatherings, but otherwise it was unused until 1969. From 1969 to 1980 a new saga emerged for the castle; leased by Lord John Tollemache to Mr. George W. Barrett, it again became a private residence and closed to the public. The right wing and tower and the castle gardens were restored to their former glory by Mr. Barrett, an American and high ranking civil servant employed by the U.S. Government. His family include his spouse, Monique, and children: Pascale, George. W. (III), Shawn, Marc and Sheila. Ms. Pascale Barrett's wedding with over 500 guests was the first to be held in the chapel and a special decree had to be obtained by the Archbishop of Canterbury to legally hold catholic weddings in the grounds of the castle. This initiative by Mr. Barrett gave an impulse for the castle to be used in the future as a luxurious wedding location." Peter I. Vardy (talk) 13:47, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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message: Theres a whole chunk of history you missed out. In the early 1980's the castle was all but derelict, and was descended on frequently at weekends by large groups of people, playing live Dungeons and Dragons. You had to turn up in costume, and you bagged a room and camped down in it, The entire weekend was spent getting drunk, stoned, smashed, high, and fighting mock battles with dye soaked rubber swords, and raiding each other camps.  There was a guy called Og, who would sell you a 9 inch diameter chocolate cake, with 1/4 oz  Red Lebanese resin baked into it. it was fantastic stuff. You cut the cake into 40 slices, and one slice kept you stoned all weekend. There would be people with instruments, and folk bands of various sorts, and there would be music all the time somewhere. This went on summer weekends for years, no one ever noticed or complained.
This is verbal folk lore, you cant read stuff like this in hstory books.
82.7.152.107 (talk) 13:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated reply - Unfortunately, if "you cant read stuff like this in hstory (sic) books", you can't include it on Wikipedia, as material here needs to be verifiable and from reliable sources. Which is a pity in this case, as the events you describe sound rather fun! Although I'm surprised you recall them as clearly as you do! KJP1 (talk) 09:51, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
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message: I have deleted the details of a marriage performed in the castle.  It is a building in which many marriages take place, some of them of notable people.  But to add all these to the article would IMO overload it and would be unencyclopaedic.  My namesake (but no relative) Jamie Vardy was married there recently.  The info has been added to his own article, but I do not think it should be included in this article.  Or do people think that all "notable" marriages in the "castle" should be included here?  It could turn out to be a long list! --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 18:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I would leave it for the applicable person's biography to include info about the castle as their wedding venue. I recently learned that Craig Phillips (a fellow resident of Shropshire when he was on the first Big Brother programme) was married there but I'm not tempted to mention it here but leave it in his article.Cloptonson (talk) 17:14, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages