Gatehouse section of the remaining parts of Richmond Palace. Photo May 2000.
You can see the Tudor arms over the archway and the blue rectangle to the right side is one of the few signs identifying this as part of Richmond Palace. Close-ups of those will be featured here in the weeks to come.
A wonderful photo. May I ask what the blue rectangle represents?
Thanks
Jeffrey
los angeles, ca
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That’s the information sign I’m referring to in the photo description. It’s not much, it just basically says “This is part of the old Richmond Palace”.
If anyone gets the chance to view Time Team In Your Garden on DVD (apologies if anyone hasn’t heard of Time Team – it’s a British archaeological television programme), the episode on Richmond Palace features the gateway in a long-shot from the other side. If you look through the gateway you will see Trumpers House in the background, and looking through the visible doorway of the house itself you would see the direct axis of entry into the palace. For me this was one of Time Team’s better episodes relating to a known palace and known historical facts. Tony Robinson, the programme’s main presenter, was quite excited once the team had the layout of the main block when he said that Queen Elizabeth 1 actually ‘died very close to here’.