For obvious reasons, Hay Castle will not be opening in August as they had originally hoped.
Instead, they are offering a virtual tour of the work still in progress, hosted by Managing Director Nancy Lavin Albert.
This will take place at 4pm on Thursday 30th July. The tour is free, but anyone interested should email the Castle on info@haycastletrust.org so they can be sent a link to the video call.
When they do finally open to the public, one of the things they are doing is creating a compendium of short stories from local authors to be read in the Castle. The authors include Owen Sheers, Barbara Erskine and Jasper Fforde, and include a memoir of King Richard Booth, a ghost story and a visit to the Castle by Rev. Kilvert.
Two members of the Hay Castle team are leaving.
Helen Horton has been dealing with the charity side of the Trust since 2012, and is now retiring.
Mari Fforde has been working at the Castle since 2015, on the local history side of things - I went up once to a Young Archaeologists' meeting she organised and had a great time helping the kids with pot washing and drawing their pots, and showing them some of my medieval re-enactment kit. She's also done talks on Matilda de Braose and other aspects of the Castle's history - what she doesn't know about the Castle isn't worth knowing! She is also moving on to pastures new, though I'm sure she'll still be involved with the Castle in some way in the future.
The Castle is also now ready to rent out the unit on Backfold which was occupied by the Thoughtful Gardener.
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