Information request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Keeper, King John's Tower, Newark on Trent on 10th November 1904 asking for information to be supplied.
There has been a castle, or fortification of some sort, at Newark-on-Trent for at least 900 years. The site itself has been in use from prehistoric times, through the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods; a Saxon cemetery situated near the medieval gatehouse was in use up to c1070. Notwithstanding this long history, and all the people whose lives have been bound up with it, Newark Castle is best-known for the death there of King John in 1216, probably on 19th October.
