S4 Ep42: Loremen S4Ep42 - Strawberry Hill Gothic
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The Origins of the Gothic Revival
The story of the castle of Toronto came to Horace Walpole in a dream. In 1747 Walpole bought chopped straw house, which has got an apostrophe in it. He turned it into by comparison vast gothic villa come castle. It also sounds like somewhere that Polly Pocket would live.
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