Dr Peter Ford will be talking about the real Lady of Hay, in other words the historical Matilda de Braose, on Thursday 7th March in the Coach House at the Swan. He has written a book about her - Tragic Matilda: Lady of Hay, available from the Castle or on Amazon.
The bar will be open at 5.30pm, and the talk starts at 6pm - and it's a free event. The idea is for Friends of Hay Castle to bring a friend, and hopefully get them interested so they'll sign up as Friends of the Castle too.
Meanwhile at Hay School, Mari Fforde has been talking about the history of the castle to the children, in a project that is introducing them to oral history and film making techniques. The children are recording interviews with local people talking about their memories of Hay - and the short films will be included on the Hay Castle website. The children have also been drawing storyboards, doing creative writing and analysing short films and commercials.
The next stage in the project is to make stop motion animations of stories from the castle's past, including Matilda de Braose, Branwell Bradley the Victorian house boy, and King Richard Booth.
And around the Castle, archaeological research is on-going. The evidence seemed to point to the tower being the original gateway into the Castle, before the present gateway beside it was built. They found a filled in arch on one side of the tower - but where was the corresponding arch on the other side?
Hay History Group took up the challenge, and excavated a trench on the south side of the tower, under the direction of the site archaeologist - and found nothing whatsoever.
Then work began inside the tower, to remove the remains of a Victorian wine cellar - and when the bricks were removed, there was the arch!
This, of course, raises more questions - why was that entrance filled in and the new one built? And when?
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