Items matching towns

Bala Town and Lake

Bala is a market town in Gwynedd, North Wales; when this picture was taken, the town was rather small.

Keywords: old photographs, lakes, towns, views

Places shown: Y Bala; Merionethshire; Wales

Added: 2008-07-14

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The Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street

...the Clarendon Building with its lofty pillared porch, where once the University Press was housed. [p. 30]

Keywords: buildings, towns, colour, roads, carts, streets

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Christ Church

Now let us stroll on – ’tis but a step – to Christ Church. Sometimes it seems as though this should take precedence of all other colleges. Its chapel is Oxford’s Cathedral, its quadrangles are the f [...]

Keywords: towns, churches, towers, roads, people, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Oxford

Line illustration from first page of the book.

Keywords: towns, chapterheads

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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West Gate, Warwick

A shepherd herds his sheep up Warwick’s main street, past mediaeval house.

Keywords: towns, colour, churches, mediaeval, people, animals

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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The East Gate, Warwick

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Plate 12. Newport, Monmouthshire.

Drawn by H. Gastineau, Engraved by S. Lacey.

Newport City Council Homepage

Keywords: bridges, water, people, boats, chimneys, towns, castles

Places shown: Newport; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Castle Street

From an Engraving by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: streets, towns, buildings, people, carts, houses

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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High Street

“Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again, by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more le [...]

Keywords: cities, buildings, streets, towns, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-04-26

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345.—Castle of Lillebonne

General view of Ruins, Church, etc. “The character of William of Normandy [William the Conqueror] was so remarkable, and indeed was such an element of success in his daring attempt upon the English cr [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, people, trees, towers, churches, towns, arches, views, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Lillebonne; Seine-Maritime; France

Added: 2005-12-20

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1951.—Battle at Worcester

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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Fowey: Entrance to the harbour.

“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it sh [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, views, towns, townscapes

Places shown: Fowey; Cornwall; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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