Items matching houses

Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford. A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat unev [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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Wordsworth’s House, Rydal Mount

“It is needless to speak of the glory shed over the Lake Country by the pen of Wordsworth, who gave an abiding expression to the influence which the varying moods of nature could exercise over the min [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, windows

Places shown: Ambleside; Westmoreland; England

Added: 2006-05-24

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Jacobean Houses in Frankwell, Shrewsbury

These houses were built some time after 1620, so they are after the Tudor period.

Keywords: tudor, houses, streets, windows, entrances

Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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Frontispiece: Denchworth

“Denchworth [...] is one of the prettiest villages hereabouts. What little there is of it consists of one short street lined mostly with timber framed and straw-thatched cottages. As one advances from [...]

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Frontispiece, Denchworth, hand coloured

This is a version of the Frontispiece sepia-tinted photograph of Denchworth that I coloured using The Gimp.

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Water End

“The village of Sandridge, close by [St. Albans], prides itself upon the honour of being “Mrs. freeman’s” birthplace, regardless of the fact that Burwell Park in Eastern Lincolnshire puts in a simila [...]

Keywords: houses, manors, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Sandridge; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-08-28

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Rothamstead

“About the same distance from Sandridge to Water End in the opposite direction stands another typical semi-Elizabethan and Jacobean mansion, which, far from degenerating in its old age, has put on a n [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-05

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Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford Castle

The square tower in the background is part of the remains of Oxford Castle.

Keywords: castles, houses, water, bridges, canals, people, roads, colour, trees

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens

Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens. [p. 25]

Keywords: houses, flowers, people, trees, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Bemersyde House

“This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual vi [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, flowers, gardens, trees, colour

Places shown: St Boswells; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Warwick Castle from the River

The towers of Warwick Castle are silhouetted against a sunset; smoke from the chimneys of two thatched cottages rises up against trees in autumn foliage. In the foreground, a solitary boatsman punts d [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, colour, water, boats, people, houses, sunsets, trees

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House

“The way to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘nest of a place’ is up the shady Holly Walk, which leads immediately out of the Royal Parade, [...] by the imposing Renaissance Town Hall and the attractive life-siz [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, trees, gardens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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