Sunday, 12 April 2015
The Telegraph:
Hundreds of tourists have been evacuated from Warwick Castle after a burning cannonball fired from the world’s largest working siege machine destroyed a medieval boathouse by fire.Turns out the boathouse was actually a 19th-century reproduction, but still a sad loss. And siegery, even when only for show, remains a serious business. (22 Tonnes. Wow!)
Sparks from the cannonball which was fired from the wooden trebuchet ignited the roof of the ancient boathouse causing a blaze on Friday night.
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The Trebuchet Fireball Spectacular is one of the Castle’s main attractions.
[The trebuchet] was built in 2005, stands 60ft high, weighs 22 tonnes and has been fired at least 6,500 times.
Via: Peter Grant
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