More recently, a similarly courageous effort has been demanded in the renovation of Barrogill Castle, now far more widely known as the Castle of Mey, the Scottish home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. From the road between Thurso – fifteen miles distant – and John o'Groats, only the turrets of the Castle are visible. Nearer, the Castle nestles amongst, what seemed to me, its own ‘Sleeping Beauty’ woodlands, open, on one side, to the sea. The Castle of Mey, as you see from Anthony Denney's pictures, has all the castellated grandeur (albeit in miniature) which we expect from any Scottish Castle, thanks to the novels of Sir Walter Scott and the practitioners of the Romantic Movement. Yet it is the interior of the Castle of Mey which shows the dramatic resurgence of this written-off relic of a rougher, tougher age.