A view from a past decorative home and salvage show at Ripley Castle.
Ripley Castle’s website describes a history of persecution, plague, loyalty, social turbulence and recklessness.
This is a far cry from the atmosphere around the marquees and shopping arcades in the tranquil countryside setting at the 14th century castle for the first showing of the “summer of salvage” as Richard Burgoin, director of Arthur Swallow Fairs, describes his three-day decorative home and salvage fairs.