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Sulgrave Manor Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

The English home of the WashingtonsNow little more than a farm house, the manor was a priory of St Andrew’s before the Reformation in the 16th Century. It’s located in Sulgrave, near Banbury in Oxford [...]

Keywords: manors, horses, trees, farms, colour

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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Warwick Castle from the River Warwick and Leamington (Haslehust and Morley) (1920)

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: 2003-11-09

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Frontispiece: Magdalen Tower. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas.

Keywords: colleges, bridges, boats, people, trees, towers, colour

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style. Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Early Norman [church] towers sometimes recieved an additional stage within a brief space. Castor (Fig. 1) is a magnificent example of this, and here the upper stage was certainly not contemplated whe [...]

Keywords: churches, norman architecture, towers, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Castor; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2010-10-12

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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow [...]

Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-28

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Front Cover, Cambridge Cambridge (1920)

The front cover; my copy has a dust jacket which is in place in this scan.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Detail from title page Cambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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The Great Court, Trinity College Cambridge (1920)

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How Oxford (Haslehust and How) (1910)

A brownish gray cover with a thick green border around a colour image. This book is part of a series produced from around 1900 until well into the 1950s as far as I can tell.

Keywords: book covers, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-10-19

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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London An Island Story (1920)

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume. [King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he b [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-05-05

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The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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Lanyon Cromleh Cornwall. From the Druidical Antiquities plate. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

This appears to be an engraving of a dolmen called Lanyon Quoit in Cornwall. The monument was actually destroyed in 1815 by a storm, and was rebuilt incorrectly. This engraving is of the original mon [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bosiliack; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-08-05

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