A GREAT response to the article on Gatherley castle, which stood beside the A1 just north of Catterick. It was demolished in 1963, although its two lodge houses - dated 1900 - still stand intriguingly on the verge. Here are some of the snippets I've picked up, although I hope to get more, possibly even a look at the original deeds: Pat Williamson lived in Gatherley Castle when she was about eight at the end of the 1940s. It was divided into apartments, one of which her recently demobbed father was able to rent on a temporary basis.

"It was such a beautiful place, lovely big ceilings with mouldings and big wide staircases," she says. "It certainly wasn't derelict."

After a year or so, her family were rehomed in one of the huts - tin, wooden and Nissen - on the REME site near Scorton (opposite where the car boot sale is today).

Still struggling for information on Sir Henry de Burgh Lawson, but I am told his descendants now live in Vermont, US.

Still struggling for a date for when it was built, although I am told there is still an archway standing that has a date of 1858 on its keystone.

Tony Herrington points out that Bulmer's Directory of 1890 calls it a "modern mansion".

The castle covered half an acre. The cellars are still there, covered with a yard of top soil which was excavated from the site of the Cadbury Smash factory which was being built at Brompton-on-Swale.

Eddie Britton was born in North Lodge in 1935 and lived there until after the castle was demolished in 1963 by developer Edgar Lawson.

I have got a statement from the Department of Transport regarding the future of the lodges. The DoT says that the northern section of the Dishforth to Barton widening programme, which I guess is from Bedale to Barton, is dependent on Octobers complete public spending review. The South Lodge was acquired in the 1990s; the North Lodge in 2007. Under the existing proposals, which went to consultation in 2006, both lodge houses will be demolished - if the scheme goes ahead.

Some of the castle's stone went to build a farm in Hunton. Another caller reckons every brick was placed into numbered packing cases and transported lock, stock and barrel to America.

Loads and loads of people have spoken about Mr Lawson using the stone for a family bungalow in Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, opposite the ED Walker Homes. He even included a coat of arms from the castle in the wall.

"I am unsure of the exact number, but the entrance with that coat of arms cannot be missed," said one e-mailer.

But I've been past three times now and can't see anything. I'm really going to have to go for a walk after my holiday which will render the blog quiet for a while.