Article: Playing at cowboys in a castle's shadow.(News Local)

Dorothy Rippon cannot bear to look at the remains of what was once one of the North-East's best-known stately homes.

Ravensworth Castle, near Gateshead, is now a crumbling ruin. But Dorothy, 82, remembers it as a thriving community where she spent a happy childhood at North Lodge, where her grandparents had also lived.

She recalls the stone castle and country house with its imposing Medieval towers, the bustling saw mill, the neat workers' cottages, and the acres of immaculate grounds which contained rare and exotic trees as well as tall oaks, ashes and elm. ...

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