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Gatehouse, Battle Abbey (wallpaper version)

Cropped version of Gatehouse, Battle Abbey intended for use as a computer desktop background or wallpaper; I cropped the image so it’s 1600x1200 pixels, and also made 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 ver [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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98.—Hurstmonceaux Castle

The modern spelling is Herstmonceux. It’s hard to relate this painting to the picture on the official Herstmonceux Web site, but it’s also clear they are of the same place.

Keywords: castles, trees, colour, towers

Places shown: Herstmonceaux; East Sussex; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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118.—Gatehouse, Battle Abbey.

The abbey at Battle commemorates the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror defeated King Harold on 14th October, 1066, to become the King of England. The buildings were used as a school fr [...]

Keywords: abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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86.—Pevensey Castle

“The Rape of Pevensey is of a curious shape. [Sussex is divided into six regions called Rapes] It narrows somewhat towards the middle and bulges out towards the top, or north end. This appears to be t [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, roman remains, trees, water, towers, colour

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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140.—The Old Kitchen at Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire

Published according to Act of Parliament by Alexr. Hogg, No 16 Paternoster Row. The remains of a castle or manor-house, wih crennelated walls (battlements) and I think a weather-vane (weathercock). A [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, trees, towwers

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-08-11

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Music

Music by Raphael Collin. ...we would call attention to the ornamental panel by Raphael Collin, which we have engraved (page 424), and which illustrates with much classic feeling and grace the idea of [...]

Keywords: music, romance, musical instruments, trees, people, bare feet

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-19

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On the Edge of Sherwood Forest

From the Painting by John MacWhirter, R.A. John MacWhirter (1839 – 1911) was a Scottish painter. He showed great promise as a boy, and his work was shown at the Royal Academy of Art (entitling him to [...]

Keywords: colour, trees, views, forests, deer, animals

Places shown: Sherwood Forest; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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Cricklade

“To all intents and purposes it is at Cricklade that the Thames comes into existence, and to ninety-nine Thams enthusiasts out of a hundred Cricklade itself is a mere name.” (p. 118)

Keywords: rivers, trees, water

Places shown: Cricklade; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2006-07-05

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They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young pepole (teens?) in the back are firing thri rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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Ophelia.

(Hamlet.) A. Hughes, Pinxt. C. Cousin, Sculpt. Ophelia is perhaps Hamlet’s former lover. She sits by the river plucking flowers one by one and worrying them in her hands; shortly afterwards she drown [...]

Keywords: people, water, flowers, trees, forests, shakespeare

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-17

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Stokesay Castle

“Shropshire is one of the most picturesque, as it is one of the most interesting, of English counties, possessing an interest of its own, as being the border-land between England and Wales, and associ [...]

Keywords: castles, manorstowers, water, trees, christmas

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-08-18

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In Needwood Forest

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) In Needwood Forest is some of Britain’s most ancient woodland. It is ma [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, spooky

Places shown: Needwood Forest; Tutbury; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2005-09-20

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