Comments on: The Elephant and Castle, Peckforton, Cheshire https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:41:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-26104 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:41:27 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-26104 In reply to Karen green.

Hello Karen. Good to have such a great ancestor!

]]> By: Karen green https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-26103 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:27:13 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-26103 ]]> In reply to Editor.

Watson was my dads nans father 😀

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14238 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:39:09 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14238 In reply to Steven Martin Myatt.

Thank you. I couldn’t resist!

]]> By: Steven Martin Myatt https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14237 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:25:31 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14237 “A mammoth task” – oh, very good.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14212 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:08:43 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14212 In reply to Gareth Hughes.

Hello Gareth. I used the early photo as I found it, as I couldn’t trace the owner. It would be wonderful to discover other images in family collections.

]]> By: Gareth Hughes https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14211 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:19:15 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14211 In reply to Gareth Hughes.

Apologies: it seems the early photo shows the other side of the elephant and has been reproduced back to front.
There’s a photo of that side as it is now on the parish council website https://www.peckfortonparish.org.uk/about-us/

]]> By: Gareth Hughes https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14209 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:14:42 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14209 The very early photo shows the castle to have had a rather different design to the present one. I wonder if it fell off at some stage, or was damaged during the (possible) move?

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14207 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:53:40 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14207 In reply to TOM GARDNER.

Hello Tom across the pond. It’s hard to avoid politics at the moment, but the elephants I favour are definitely statues or flesh and blood.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14206 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:51:38 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14206 In reply to Sally Paque.

Good evening Sally. Good luck finding a chance to use such a word! Pleased you enjoyed the mammoth pun.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-elephant-and-castle-peckforton-cheshire/#comment-14205 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:50:29 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=12131#comment-14205 In reply to Ivan Burrows.

Thanks Ivan. I was quite proud of that pun.

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