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Fountains Abbey
Alt-England (1888)
This is a spectacular view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I found a photograph from approximately the same angle in a page on theHistoric UKWeb site.The abbey was founded in 1139, some [...]
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ruins, abbeys, churches, arches, windows, stonework, greyscale
Places shown:
Aldfield; Ripon; Yorkshire; England
Added: 2022-06-03
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1052.—St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Among the more important churches erected in the period of which we treat, that ofNewcastle-Upon-Tyneholds an honourable place (Fig. 1052). It crowns a bold eminence, and forms from every point of vi [...]
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spires, churches, towers, people, shops, streets, clocks, houses, christmas, colour
Places shown:
Newcatle-upon-tyne; Northumberland; England
Added: 2004-03-04
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1053.—Glasgow Cathedral.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“As St. Patrick’s Cathedral is the chief specimen of Gothic architecture in Ireland, so isGlasgow Cathedral(Fig. 1053) themost perfect relic of the kind in Scotland, or anywhere else, in the opinion o [...]
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cathedrals, churches, towers, waterfalls, water, people, windows, greyscale
Places shown:
Glasgow
Glasgow; Scotland
Added: 2007-01-22
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1054.—Kelso.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Among the less distinguished classes of monachism [sic, meaning monasticism] that also sprang out of the original Benedictine, may be mentioned that to whichKelso Abbey, in the town of Kelso, Roxburg [...]
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ruins, abbeys, towers, people, greyscale
Places shown:
Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland
Added: 2006-08-16
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1055.—St. Magnus, Kirkwall.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
The Reformation in Scotland, which had so nearly caused the destruction of Glasgow Cathedral, spared one other building of the same kind, and only one—the Cathedral ofSt. Magnus, at the seaport twn of [...]
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churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, greyscale
Places shown:
Kirkwall; Orkney Islands; Scotland
Added: 2010-04-10
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1057.—South east View of Melrose Abbey
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Some of the general features of the great abbeys of the Cistercian order, that we have noticed in England, we find repeated in the Scottish housesMelroseandNew Abbey. The former, the mother Cistercia [...]
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abbeys, churches, ruins, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
Places shown:
Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland
Added: 2006-08-06
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1058.—Melrose Abbey
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Francis Drake, writing in 1742, also observes “Mailross, I shall take it upon me to say, has been the most exquisite structure of the kind in either kingdom.” Lastly comes the poet, also pointing out [...]
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churches, abbeys, ruins, spooky, greyscale
Places shown:
Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland
Added: 2006-08-27
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Courtyard, Naworth Castle
The Story of Some English Shires (1897)
The story of the ill-planned rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland has already been told. One of their associates was Leonard Dacre, who held the castle of Naworth, and gathered roun [...]
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castles, steps, staircases, entrances, windows, greyscale
Places shown:
Brampton; Cumberland; England
Added: 2006-09-07
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The Minster and Bootham Bar
Red Book Of York (1901)
The word ‘bar’ here means gate, not somewhere you buy a drink. Bootham Bar in the city of York stands on the site of one of four gateways into the Roman legionary fortress, but the gate there today d [...]
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churches, gateways, entrances, colour
Places shown:
York; Yorkshire; England
Added: 2004-04-25
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Thomas Burlings, Elder
The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)
“I mind very well too, on the afternoon of the dividual same day, that my door-neighbour, Thomas Burlings, popped in; [...] It’s a wearyfu’ thing that whisky. I wish it could be banished to Botany Ba [...]
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people, beards, colour
Places shown:
Dalkieth; Lothian; Scotland
Added: 2006-01-06
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Methley Hall
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...]
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interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls
Places shown:
Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England
Added: 2005-08-24
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Methley Hall, Wallpaper Version
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
A version of theMethley Hallcoloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper.No, I don’t know why some people put [...]
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backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper
Places shown:
Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England
Added: 2005-08-24
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A Guid Gangin’ Plea
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)
A Guid Gangin’ Plea, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W.An older gentleman sits at a writing desk with a quill pen in his mouth; he is holding what appears to be an opened l [...]
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portraits, people, writing, colour
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Scotland
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1672.—Hulme Hall, Lancashire.—Front View.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Hulme Hall, Lancashire (Fig. 1672), may be looked on as a fair specimen of the very numerous timber-houses that form so conspicuous a class in the domestic architecture of Elizabeth’s time. And most [...]
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buildings, architecture, tudor houses, towers, houses, people, horses, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
Places shown:
Newton Heath; Lancashire; England
Added: 2011-01-07
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Roxburgh Castle
The Scott Country (1920)
SaysDiscover the Borders, “The ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh, favourite of Scottish kings, seated on its massive grassy mound between the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.”
Keywords:
castles, towers, ruins, trees, water, colour
Places shown:
Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland
Added: 2004-02-27
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