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Warwick Castle from the River Warwick and Leamington (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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Front cover of “Warwick and Leamington” Warwick and Leamington (1920)

All of the colour plates from this book are online here, including a higher-resolution version of the cover picture, Leycester Hospital .

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-06-20

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Chantry Chapel, Warwick Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...]

Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-10-30

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415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...]

Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2022-01-29

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416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-07

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys Cliff Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliffis pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of Warwick Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows:WARWICK CASTLE,NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK.Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have built [...]

Keywords: castles, buildings, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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West Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

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: 2003-11-09

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Guy’s Cliffe. Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, parks, buildings, colour, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-06-16

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The Beauchamp Chapel Warwick and Leamington (1920)

Tombs of the founder and Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThis tomb is (or was) in St. Mary’s Church, also known as Warwick High Church. George Morley writes (p.15)From the choir the silent mover in ‘ [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, churches, windows

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Leycester Hospital Warwick and Leamington (1920)

These buildings mostly date from the 1570s; the site previously belonged to the Guild of the Holy Trinity and St George which was formed in 1383. The BBC has apanoramic tour. This building has been u [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-11

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The East Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

...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: 2003-12-02

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A Saxon Mill England Beautiful (1936)

This is instantly recognizable as the Saxon Mill at Guy’s Cliffe in Warwickshire; it’s mentiontd in the Domesday Book, and there’s a stone dated 1060 by the door, although the mill was running (it’s s [...]

Keywords: mills, buildings, trees, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-11-22

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Guy’s Cliffe Mill, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

Let all fair pilgrims note the postern door in the stone wall of the Cliffe grounds, near the picturesque Saxon Mill, with its decorative wooden balcony, where John Ruskin loved to linger, listening t [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-15

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Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“The Coventry road to Guy’s Cliffe is a royal and a literary road. Kings, queens, princes, poets, painters and authors have trodden it; also that luckless King’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, whose come [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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