Description:A view of the Great Hall at Warwick Castle, taken around 1880 by H.T. Cooke.
Around this time, the Great Hall was used both as a living room and as a venue for lavish occasions.
It also represents a crossroads in the castle's past. Through the doorway in the centre can be seen the window light at the end of a series of seventeenth and eighteenth-century state rooms. To the right, a passage leads to a chapel, and to a servants' corridor, which runs parallel to the state rooms.
However, the rooms behind the camera were burnt out by the Great Fire of 1871. The Hall itself was damaged a little, but here remains much as it had been, and still is.