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cottages: small rural houses. An English country cottage is a residence, usually with multiple rooms and a garden full of flowers, and is unrelated to the American word used as a synonym for cabin.

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Chiddingfold, Surry (hand-coloured version)

Chiddingfold, Surry (hand-coloured version)

Gallery: What people did with the images (2004)

A hand-coloured version of Chiddingford; the original picture was by Sidney Jones in 1906; Liam Quin did the colouring, rather hastily.

Keywords: cottages, colour

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

Image status: copyright by the respective artist or artists and must not be reproduced in any form witout permission

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A version of Wilfrid Ball’s painting of a thatched house in the English village of Long Wittenham made to fit a wide-screen or high-definition screen, for use as a wallpaper or desktop background imag [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, cottages, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Pershoew, Worcestershire

Pershoew, Worcestershire

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Biddenden, Kent

Biddenden, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour by Wilfrid Ball, R.E. An English country cottage in Spring or perhaps late Summer. There’s something particularly charming about thatched english cottages. The village of Long Witt [...]

Keywords: cottages, houses, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Lustleigh, Devonshire.

Lustleigh, Devonshire.

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From an oil-painting by Grosvenor. “Of these cottages it can truly be said that they are growths of the soil, trimmed and clipped somewhat by man, but never enough that they can be described as “works [...]

Keywords: cottages, trees, people, houses, thatched cottages, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Lustleigh; Teignbride; Devon

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Haslemere, Surrey

Haslemere, Surrey

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see s [...]

Keywords: cottages, people, flowers, colour

Places shown: Haslemere; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-09

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Cranbrook, Kent

Cranbrook, Kent

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Chiddingfold, Surrey

Chiddingfold, Surrey

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A cottage in Chiddingfold, Surrey (in the South of England), showing the use of tile to cover the upper storey’s walls and the chimney. It is signed by Sidney Jones and dated 1906. Hand-coloured vers [...]

Keywords: cottages

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested