Barnard Castle, Durham Product:Postcard Rod Stewart poses wearing trousers

Rod Stewart poses wearing trousers and striped jacket

Alexander Pedler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892

for which he was knighted

Boats on Regent's Canal

Barnard Castle, Durham Product:Postcard Rod Stewart poses wearing trousersBarnard Castle, Durham, c1905. View of the ruins of the castle overlooking the River Tees. The castle was originally built by the Normans but reached the height of its importance in the second half of the 12th century when it was in the hands of the Balliol family. It later came into the hands of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and passed to King Richard III through his wife, Anne, who was the Earl's daughter. The castle fell into ruin in the 16th