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Bent, almost broken
Scarred by yesterday’s sorrows
Yet beauty remains
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at Little Moreton Hall, near Congleton in Cheshire. I took liberties with the original image, changing what was a beautiful sunny day to a more atmospheric monochrome.
The Hall is a fabulous sixteenth century survival, that I was fortunate enough to visit in the company of friends who know that era intimately.
There has been a Hall on the site for at least eight hundred years, though the present building was only begun around 1504, being added to by successive generations until its completion around a hundred years later.
Sitting on a moated island, the house is a spectacular example of the style and has everything from wall paintings to the obligatory grey lady haunting the gallery and the child heard sobbing in the chapel. For good measure, the house is said to be built on a ley, which may explain the legendary lost tunnel from the house… and there is also an oddly shaped mound in the grounds that looks like a burial barrow.
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My thanks, as always, to all those who took part. All the posts inspired by this image are listed below, so please click on the links to read them and leave a comment for the author. Thank you too, to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes.
A new prompt will be published later today. I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows, as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Please note: Many people are having problems across WordPress with pingbacks not coming through… so if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
A Reminder and an invitation
As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto regulars to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! ‘Regulars’ does not mean you have to take part every week… Click here for details
Come and join in!
Please leave your comments for the contributors on their blogs.
One from me
Christine Mallaband-Brown who paid a recent visit to Little Moreton Hall…with pictures
Diana Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
Hugh Roberts at Hugh’s Views and News
Hélène Vaillant at Willow Poetry
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Kerfe Roig at methodtwomadness
Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey
Tien Skye at From the Window Seat
Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken
Michele Jones at Out of the Shadows
Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Bladud Fleas at The Moon is Rising
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Hey, I was late but here’s my link: http://www.kaleidoscopeofmylife.com/2019/05/09/etched-writephoto/
It was a beautiful capture and amazing number of entries!
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Thanks, Ashwini, I’ll add it to the round up.
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Thank you dear 🙂
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Stunning, simply Stunning, and a ever an amazing input from everyone. 💜
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It is a fabulous place to visit, Willow xx
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It’s now on my list 💜
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Well worth it x
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I recognised it! We were there three days ago. It’s looking wonderful. I like your atmospheric picture.
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I’ll have to go back one of these days .
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It’s worth it. And visit Rode hall down the road towards Stoke if you have time x
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There is never enough time to visit all the places I would like to see!
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😊
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I wrote a piece, don’t know if you saw it. X
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I don’t think I did…can you drop me a link.
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OK….
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Such wonderful entries!
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Superb 🙂
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What a cool place, and so old. I’m amazed that it’s actually in such “good” shape. And thanks for the note on pingbacks. I haven’t been getting them consistently either.
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It is an amazing glimpse into the past. (I didn’t get your pingback either…just glad I got the email notification!)
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WP – gotta love it, but sometimes…
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Tell me about it…
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So many great stories/poems, Sue! Love the new photo for this week!
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It is a great collection this week, Dorinda 🙂
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What an interesting history lesson. Facinating is more like it. Thank you for sharing it.
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It is a magnificent building, Beckie.
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It’s place like this, I would love to take a tour of. Really stunning!
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Check out Christine’s post for some more photos 🙂
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