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Location DB > Canada > Ontario > Courtice > Trull Manor (1855) > Inside the Widow's Walk (January 23, 2006) > S5300038.JPG

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The Widow's Walk (small, railed observation platform atop a house. Once used to scout for seamen, such walks are usually square, done in elaborately-worked wrought iron or wood). Getting up there was not easy and I suffered a nasty gash in my head for my efforts...
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Posted by LostintheWoods 5/15/2006 10:10 PM | remove
  Ha ha, you said "nasty gash"
Posted by bandi 6/7/2006 3:13 AM | remove
  hahaha and seamen
Posted by fedge 6/7/2006 4:17 PM | remove
  It's wrong to put seamen into a nasty gash!
Posted by Dotsebeil 4/26/2007 6:26 PM | remove
  isn't that how they get nasty?
Posted by Homme 1/12/2008 7:47 AM | remove
  That's actually a tower with a cupola. A widows walk would have run along the top of the roof, uncovered.
Posted by Dotsebeil 1/17/2008 5:10 PM | remove
  Architecturally, you're right, but the purpose is still pretty much the same. Did anyone note whether there was a chimney going up through the middle of it?
Posted by iloveflyouts 4/2/2012 10:21 PM | remove
  That's so cool! My friend and I went up there when we were young. It smelled really bad in the attic
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