Items in England (results page 9)

Brewer’s Vat. London (Volume IV) (1841)

A giant beer-barrel at a brewery in London in the 1840s.“The wonderful magnitude of the great London breweries is a familiar source of wonderment. The stacks of casks that might reach, placed side by [...]

Keywords: beer, barrels, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-06-04

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131.—Wall of Severus, on the Sandstone Quarries, Denton Dean, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a part of Hadrian’s Wall, calling it the Wall of Severus in a confusion common since the 17th century.Hadrian’s Wall here seens to go along the edge of a bank, so that the land beh [...]

Keywords: roman remains, ruins, walls, people, cliffs, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Hadrian’s Wall; Denton Dean; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2018-04-13

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132.—Wall of Severus, near Housestead, Northumberland. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a part of Hadrian’s Wall, calling it the Wall of Severus in a confusion common since the 17th century. The Wall of Hadrian is aUNESCOworld heritage site.The appearance of the Wall [...]

Keywords: roman remains, walls, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Housesteads Roman Fort; Hadrian’s Wall; Bardon Mill; Northumberland; England

Added: 2014-11-12

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Wordsworth’s House, Rydal Mount The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“It is needless to speak of the glory shed over the Lake Country by the pen of Wordsworth, who gave an abiding expression to the influence which the varying moods of nature could exercise over the min [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Ambleside; Westmorland; England

Added: 2006-05-24

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III.—View in Radcliffe Square The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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Rain-Water Head, Haddon Hall Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A rain-head, collecting water from gutters and divirting it to a down-pipe, elaorately carved in the Gothic style.

Keywords: architecture, decor, gothic, greyscale

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-04-22

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Pound’s Bridge, Near Penshurst, Kent Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

From a drawing by William Twopeny.“The drawing of Pound’s Bridge, near Penshurst (facing page 14), is in itself a valuable document, recording the condition of the house as it was during the first hal [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-09-19

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150.—Daneway House, Gloucestershire. English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 150 - The Entry

probably early 15th century in origin.

Keywords: interiors, manors, arches, doors, chairs, corridors, steps, colour

Places shown: Bisley; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Water End Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“The village of Sandridge, close by [St. Albans], pridesitself upon the honour of being “Mrs. freeman’s” birthplace, regardless of the fact that Burwell Park in Eastern Lincolnshire puts in a similar [...]

Keywords: houses, manors, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Sandridge; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-08-28

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Stokesay Castle The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“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, manors, towers, water, trees, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2006-08-18

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169.—Condover Hall, Shropshire English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

A Corner of the North Elevation showing the position of the lead heads.“A Royal manor in Saxon times Condover, throughout the sixteenth century, was in and out of the hands of the Crown until, in 1586 [...]

Keywords: manors, entrances, windows, colour

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi College Cambridge (1920)

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352.“Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the fi [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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Folly Bridge Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“Any places of strength in Oxford would command the roads leading to the north and west, and the secure, raised paths that ran through the flooded fens to the ford or bridge, if bridge there then was, [...]

Keywords: water, bridges, people, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-10-04

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In Needwood Forest The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“. . . 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 man [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Needwood Forest; Tutbury; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2005-09-20

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18. Bodiam Castle, Sussex (1386) The Growth of the English House (1909)

Showing the Moat.

Now owned by theNational Trust, Bodiam Castle dates from 1385, and is in all the books on castles because of its surviving moat.

Keywords: castles, ruins, moats, towers, water, architecture, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Bodiam; Robertsbridge; Sussex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge. A Short History of the English People (1902)

Built c. 114 – 1130.Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge.Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a burial [...]

Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2011-07-26

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19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90). The Growth of the English House (1909)

Ground Plan.

There are lots of other pictures of Stokesay Castle here; try a search for Shropshire.

Keywords: plans, maps, castles, colour

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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194.—The Parapet English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Taken at Condover Hall, Shropshire.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-03-03

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195.—Condover Hall English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

The West Side.

Keywords: manors, trees, windows, chimneys, colour

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2003-12-20

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209.—Tower of Earl’s Barton Church Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The church in Earl’s Barton, in Northamptonshire, is a work of several periods of our Gothic architecture; but the tower is now universally admitted to be of Saxon construction (Fig. 209). It exhibits [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, anglosaxon remains, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: Earl’s Barton; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2005-08-23

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