Description:A general view of Tutbury castle with the King's Lodging to the left and the Keep on the motte. Cattle are grazing in the bailey. The King's Lodging was built in 1631-35 on the site of the former great hall. The Keep is actually a folly built in 1780, the original keep having been demolished by Parliamentarians along with much of the rest of the castle in 1647-1648 following the surrender of the Royalist garrison there earlier in the Civil War.
Tutbury Castle is first mentioned in 1071, when it was transferred to Henry de Ferrers from Hugh d’Avranches. The original motte and bailey castle had probably been built around two years earlier, following a rebellion in the Midlands against the newly established Norman King, William I (1066-87). The castle was the chief seat of the de Ferrers family, and later a major castle of the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster.
A Valentines Series postcard posted from Burton on Trent 1907