Comments on: Belmount Tower, Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:27:11 +0000

In reply to Toby Sumner. Hello Toby. If you wished to use any of the information it should just be credited to The Folly Flâneuse, with a link to the original page if possible. Many thanks.

By: Toby Sumner

Toby Sumner — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:01:49 +0000

If I was to source information from this text, who would be the Author?

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:30:43 +0000

Hi Tom and thanks for commenting. I’m ashamed to say that I had no idea it was visible from the main line, despite that fact that I have travelled between Yorkshire and London for decades. I guess I had always got my nose in a book at that point. Once we return to some form of normality I will be looking out for the tower, and thanks so much for the information.

By: Tom Oliver

Tom Oliver — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:19:35 +0000

Helpfully visible from the main railway from London to Edinburgh, one of the eyecatchers on that 4 hour progress through an interesting sequence of landscapes. Not part of the original design intention but notable nonetheless. The oddity of it evident from several miles away at 125mph….

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:12:15 +0000

In reply to Gwyn. Yes, my photos, we were very lucky with the weather. And sadly yes the windows are broken, not sure from which side. Problems with vandalism continue - door broken door, fires lit in the arch. Very sad.

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:06:59 +0000

Excellent photographs. Are they yours? And are some of the window panes broken? From the inside or the outside? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:04:31 +0000

In reply to Gand. Ho ho ho!

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:41:00 +0000

In reply to Gand. Oh very good!

By: Gand

Gand — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 09:54:42 +0000

In the instance of Brownlow’s Britches perhaps, therefore it is held up with Belton braces.