Sorry Joel, we have loads of castles of various sizes and I have not
come across this one. Which way would the normal staircase turn then?
If it is for the higher swordsman it would go up/right; if for the
lower it would go up/left...
Chris
On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 01:43 Europe/London, Joel Wilcox wrote:
I was in a castle once somewhere in England where the spiral staircase
corkscrewed opposite the usual direction because by heredity the
inhabiting family were mostly lefties. I hadn't realized that spiral
staircases were defensive constructs, designed for sword-play. Silly
me. Very interesting.
You don't happen to know the castle (I think it was a castle), do you?
I'm guessing it was in Yorkshire or elsewhere up north.
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