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View From City Walls (Widescreen Version) Red Book Of York (1901)

A version of View from the City Walls cropped for use as a screen background. Choose the size nearest to your computer’s monitor resolution. There is also a 1600x1200 (4:3) version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, cathedrals, cityscapes, buildings, people, views, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2008-09-23

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Guildford Castle, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

the entrance to Guildford castle, Surrey One of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ad [...]

Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-19

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Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate Street The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

“Turning now from the outside of the walls to the inside, we must remember that the four Roman Streets, intersecting one another at right angles, have always been the features which determined the who [...]

Keywords: houses, street scenes, horses, carts, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-10-11

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Lantern-carrier London (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: pepole, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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Watchmen London (Volume I) (1841)

Two men in long winter cloaks walk the night-time streets of London, each carrying a lantern. One also has a hand-bell and both have spears. The image is credited to “Dekker, 1616.” Stow says that in [...]

Keywords: people, watchmen, lanterns, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-19

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Orange Court – Drury Lane London (1872)

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children, greyscale

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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Leys Street. Antwerpia

An old (undated) photograph of Laystraat in Antwerp. I can see signs for the Norwich Union, and for a large hotel (Metropole?) and also for F. Dierckx.

Keywords: cities, buildings, street scenes, old photogrphs, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-08-15

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5th November: Guy Fawkes Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Boys carry a stuffed dummy, a straw-stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, through a town; the figure is arranged on a chair supported by two poles, a litter. In the background people watch, or raise their hat [...]

Keywords: people, children, street scenes, religion, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2007-08-31

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Street Music—1789. London (Volume I) (1841)

Dayes, who published a collection of street views about 1789, has given us the group which concludes our paper. Here we have the organ, the triangle, the tambourine, and the hurdy-gurdy,—each strivi [...]

Keywords: musicians, street scenes, poverty, busking, people, instruments, animals, children, dogs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-23

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The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral. English Cathedrals (1910)

At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The West Front, From the Minster-yard. English Cathedrals (1910)

The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The Shambles Red Book Of York (1901)

The Shambles is the name of a famous narrow cobbled street in the city of York.

Keywords: cities, street scenes, cobbles, people, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2009-01-18

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