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Frontispiece: Denchworth Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“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 cottages streets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Frontispiece, Denchworth, hand coloured Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

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

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

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Jacobean Houses in Frankwell, Shrewsbury English Homes Vol III no. 1, Late Tudor (1922)

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

Keywords: tudor, houses, streets, windows, entrances, colour

Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Museum of Antiquities Antwerpia

Portal of the Castle. Het Steen. – Museum van Oudheden – Poort van den Burcht. Het Steen. – Musée d’Antiquitiés – Porte du Bourg. Het Steen. – Altertumsmuseum – Tor der Burg. Het Steen. – Museum of An [...]

Keywords: castles, streets, people, cobbles, colour

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2004-08-01

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St. George’s Chapel, Windsor The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The round tower is one of the famous London landmarks, another part of Windsor Castle. The image caption also said, Publish’d the 9th of June 1784 by S. Hooper. T Bonnor scup dirext. [i.e. engraved]; [...]

Keywords: castles, chapels, streets, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-05-30

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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, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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IV.—Sheldonian Theatre, etc., Broad Street The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“THE BROAD STREET The east side of the University buildings proper was shown in the last picture (Plate IV [sic]); in the present one the north side of the same block is seen. The old University “scho [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, streets, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-13

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Bocardo, destroyed in 1771. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Lang says that the Bocardo Prison predated the University.

The image is signed “S. R.”

Keywords: churches, streets, carts, carriages, people, clocks, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Plate 3. Chipping Campden Church and Almshouses Cotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, Church and Almshouses

Chipping Campden was the home of William Morris, the founder of the Arts and craft movement in 19th century England.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, churches, buildings, streets, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-28

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Bocardo, North Side Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

The Bocardo, the mediaeval prison in Oxford, shown from the North side; the engraving is signed “S. R.” The tower here is St. Michael’s church. “Of Bocardo no trace remains, but St. Michael’s is likel [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, arches, streets, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-17

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Slave Market Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

“I must mention, as one of the ex-Kedive’s best actions, the abolition of the slave trade, which was flourishing in Egypt only a short time since. Very few years have gone by since I myself was one of [...]

Keywords: slavery, slaves, people, ancient egypt, streets, cities, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2005-05-31

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The Church of St. Giles from the Lawnmarket Edinburgh (1912)

“The status of the Duke of Buccleuch shows immediately under the tower of the Cathedral, backed by the modernised west end of the building. Farther down the High Street, to the east, is the Tron Churc [...]

Keywords: churches, streets, cities, cathedrals, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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