There's not much left of Fotheringhay Castle, in Northants, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by Elizabeth I and where she was executed.
Dundrennan Abbey, which was the last place that Mary slept in before leaving Scotland, is very near where I live and has fared slightly better.
Sandy Denny had a bit of a thing about Mary and wrote a song about her called 'Fotheringay', here performed by Sandy with Fairport Convention. After she left Fairport she formed a band called...Fotheringay.
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I must admit, I just love the word Fotheringay. I'm fascinated by Tudor history too (hard not to be really), looking at old buildings is brilliant! Love Sandy's voice too, thanks for posting this.
I like Tudors too...Hatfield House and Audley End are lovely. Scary times to live in though.
TFG: I've been saving this, loved FP, does anyone sound like that anymore? I didn't buy enough of their albums when I had the chance; should probably get a "best of".
No, they really don't...I have a lot of early Fairport: do you use Yahoo Messenger? That's a really good way to send music files.
I do have one compilation, called 'Chronicles' which is pretty good - I bought it in a state of shock on finding that a) a real record shop had opened in Dumfries and b) they had a Fairport record!
It's on Amazon.com - I just looked.
Thanks, I shall investigate Yahoo messenger.
I have one double FC album, Meet on the ledge which I enjoy but there's so much of that genre and era that I don't know about. Bloke I've come to appreciate is Fred Neil, there's a double 'best of' available that I should get, I just have a few single cuts.
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