Getting close to a Tudor wonder

 
This is about as close to Broughton Hall as you'll get, unless you're fortunate enough to be invited to one of the magnificent Grand Charity Balls that are held here every so often.

Broughton Hall is a famous Elizabethan manor that has been in private hands since it was built, but - one of the magical aspects of the British footpath network! - a walkers' path gets this close to it.  Thus: at least one can admire the wonderful exterior from relatively close.

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Falling foul of Henry

 
What drew me to this stained-glass in Brecon Cathedral was the Stafford Knot in it of course - you can see the knot on this man's shoulder.
He is Edward Stafford, the third Duke of Buckingham.
(The first duke had been born at Stafford Castle and was also the Earl of Stafford. He was the one who had first adopted the knot for the family's badge/livery.) 

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Poor Edward was executed in 1521 after annoying Henry VIII for something or other. 

Sighing to the workhouse

This must have been a most miserable passageway 150 years ago.
The Victorians of the town of Stone lived and enjoyed themselves on the east side of the river, so, on the west, they built the local Workhouse, in which the desperately poor were housed.
To access the workhouse from the comfortable side of town, the poverty-stricken had to pass through this passageway under a small bridge.  A bridge of sighs.

 

After the end of the Poor Laws, the old workhouse became a hospital, and is now - by a curious twist of fate -, luxury apartments!