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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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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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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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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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The Leam at Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“For from leafy Leamington every old, historic, and romantic spot in the whole of Shakeslpeare’s classic land can be visited and inspected in a day’s ride in carriage, coach, or motor car.” (p. 32)

Keywords: rivers, water, churches, towers, trees, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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In the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“Enter the Jephson Gardens now by this eastern end, and go right through to the Parade, and to the Pump Room and Gardens across the Parade. These handsoe Gardens take their title from the celebrated [...]

Keywords: colour, trees

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-01-09

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“The way to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘nest of a place’ is up the shady Holly Walk, which leads immediately out of the Royal Parade, [...] by the imposing Renaissance Town Hall and the attractive life-siz [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, trees, gardens, dickens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-01

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The Parade and Pump Room, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“Crossing the gay Parade from the Jephson Gardens just at its very gayest here, the Grand Pump Rooms and Baths, erected in 1813 at a cost of £30,000, and greatly enlarged and improved since, stand bef [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, trees, streets, people, autumn

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-06

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The Old Well House and Parish Church, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

The Parish Church of Leamington was originally a chapel-of-ease to the mother church of St. Peter’s at Wootton Wawen, in the heart of the Forest of Arden. The Church is said [in this book] to date ba [...]

Keywords: colour, churches, people, gothic

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-06

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