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Front Cover, In Unfamiliar EnglandIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

A greenish blue cover with gold foil lettering and a black drawing of a castle.

Keywords: colour, book covers, castles

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-28

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Frontispiece: Sulgrave ManorIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

Sulgrave Manor, The Cradle of the Washingtons. Painted especially for the author by Daniel Sherrin. The printing quality was rather poor, unfortunately, so this image is included more because it might [...]

Keywords: colour, manors, farms, people, sunsets, trees, george washington

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-10-23

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Washington Brass, Sulgrave ChurchIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

We followed the rough cobblestone walk to the church door, but could not gain admittance until the caretaker was found, for Sulgrave Church has been kept strictly under lock and key ever since one of [...]

Keywords: george washington, brasses, gravestones, duogravures, monuments, colour

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2014-08-17

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King Arthur’s Castle, Off Tintagel Head, CornwallIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“After we reached the hotel, the long twilight still gave time to contemplate the weird beauty of the surroundings and to explore the ruins of the castle so famed in song and story. We scrambled down [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, water, colour

Places shown: Tintagel; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-06-12

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Berkeley CastleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“There are few English castles where the spirit of medievalism lingers as at Berkeley and few that have darker deeds recorded in their long annals of crime. [...] The castle, grim, many-towered, ivy-c [...]

Keywords: castles, overgrown, towers, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Berkeley; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2007-09-18

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Caerphilly Castle, South WalesIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“For ten miles from Newport we wend our way over a dusty, ill-kept byroad with sharp turns and steep grades, and before we come to the village we see from some distance the broken towers and battleme [...]

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

Places shown: Caerphilly; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2006-08-28

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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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Corfe Village and CastleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

There has been a castle on this site for well over a thousand years. The buildings there now were started in the 11th century, but were slighted (made insignificant, or at least indefensible) after t [...]

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

Places shown: Corfe Castle; Wareham; Dorset; England

Added: 2006-10-31

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Whittington Castle, Shropshire (wallpaper version)In Unfamiliar England (1910)

This is a version of Whittington Castle resized and cropped so it fits on most computer desktops.

Keywords: castles, moats, water, towers, overgrown, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Oswestry; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-10-23

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Whittington Castle, Shropshire.In Unfamiliar England (1910)

There was a castle here over a thousand years ago, but the current buildings probably date from the 1200s and later. Whitting Castle Preservation Trust hopes to conserve the castle. All the book says [...]

Keywords: castles, moats, water, towers, overgrown, greyscale

Places shown: Oswestry; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-10-23

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