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Stanton Court: The Centre of West PointEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

The porch and oriel projections are small, and gable-ended wings stretch forth. [p. xvi]. Nowadays you can stay at Stanton Court Cottages (I think this is the same place; it’s near Broadway, Worceste [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances, colour

Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Stanton Court: The Centre of West PointEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

This is a version that I coloured slightly. The photographs in the book are monochrome, so this is just a guess on my part.

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances, colour

Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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819.—Bridge at Evesham.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“ “About two miles and a half from Evesham is an elevated point near the village of Twyford, where the Alcester Road is crossed by another track. The [River] Avon is not more than a mile distant on e [...]

Keywords: bridges, water, people, churches, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Evesham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-02-13

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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Suckley, Worcestershire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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Pershore, WorcestershireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, RippleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) Stocks were sometimes used to hold people b [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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1951.—Battle at WorcesterOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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Edgar’s Gateway, WorcesterThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The engraving (signed Whymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th C [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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2085.—[Samuel] Butler’s House, PershoreOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows the house where Samuel Butler (1613 – 1680), the English poet, was born. It is a farmhouse like many others from the period in England, with a thatched roof and brick chimneys. it ha [...]

Keywords: houses, farmhouses, samuel butler, hudibras, exteriors, buildings, cottages, poets, people, greyscale

Places shown: Strensham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2018-01-25

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Antique Map of WorcestershireThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Antique Map of Worcestershire

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Worcestershire; England

Added: 2008-10-05

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Overview map of Worcestershire, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Worcestershire; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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