Items in or near Cumberland (results page 5)

Stonegate Red Book Of York (1901)

Stonegate Shambles in York is today a pedestrian-only area. In the distance in this photograph is the ever-present York Minster.

Keywords: houses, streets, colour

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-04-25

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The Shambles Red Book Of York (1901)

The Shambles is the name of a famous narrow cobbled street in the city of York.

Keywords: cities, street scenes, cobbles, people, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2009-01-18

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Mugo Glen The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

Mungo Glen was a boy apprenticed to Mansie Wauch (the fictional Scottish tailor) at the age of fourteen.“Fro the days in which he had lain in his cradle, [Mungo Glen] had been brought up in a remote a [...]

Keywords: people, children, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-06

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Branxholm Tower The Scott Country (1920)

“It was from Branxholm, on the Teviot above Hawick, that another Scott of the name – generation after generation were Walters – rode forth to rescue ‘Kinmount Willie’ from prison in Carlisle. The Min [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water, trees

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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General Sullivan’s House Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXXIII. (1886)

I thought this picture would make a good Christmas Card! It shows the New England house of a wealthy lawyer from the 18th century, snow-covered in a wintry December.John Sullivan was a lawyer in Du [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, snow, american uprising, houses, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; New Hampshire; USA

Added: 2011-12-23

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2403.—Game of Shinty. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In shinty (Fig. 2403), which is so favourite a sport in the Highlands of Scotland, the ball is struck by a stick, and the object with each party is to drive it beyond certain opposed boundaries. This [...]

Keywords: sports, games, people, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2011-01-26

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Dryburgh Abbey The Scott Country (1920)

The Tomb of Sir Walter ScottThe abbey is said to have been founded in 1150 by the White Friars. Edward II burned it in 1322, and Robert the Bruce partly restored it. Sir Walter Scott is buried in th [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, arches, abbeys, trees, ruins

Places shown: Dryburgh; Melrose; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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Methley Hall, Yorkshire Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

This building was demolished in 1963, and there is nothing left of it.I find no mention of this Hall in the book, unfortunately.Methley Hall was the country house of the Savile family, Earls of Mexbor [...]

Keywords: manors, animals, sheep, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-04-02

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John Knox’s Pulpit Queens of Scotland, the (1887)

John Knox, who had joined them [in the Scottish city of Perth] only a few days before, preached such a vehement sermon against idolatry that he increased the excitement. On the 11th of May[1559], he b [...]

Keywords: pulpits, religion, furniture, greyscale

Places shown: Perth; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2012-07-08

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An Old Dalkeith Body The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

The darkness of the latter days came over my spirit like a vision before the prophet Isaiah; and I could see nothing in the years to come but beggary and starvation; myself a fallen-back old man, with [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2007-04-19

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Bemersyde House The Scott Country (1920)

“This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual vi [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, flowers, gardens, trees, colour

Places shown: St Boswells; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2005-09-19

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Melrose Abbey: Choir and North Transept The Scott Country (1920)

“Melrose—“the light of the land, the abode of saints, the grave of monarchs” – is a glorious fragment, more beautiful, perhaps in detail than in general effect, in ornament than in design; and memorab [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, windows, arches, trees, colour

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Glamis Castle. William Shakspere Biography (1841)

The Dunsinane Hills form a long range extending in a north-easterly direction from Perth to Glamis. The castle of the “thane of Glamis” has been made a traditionary scene of the murder of Duncan [in M [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, macbeth, castles, towers, people, horses, soldiers, turrets, battlements, greyscale

Places shown: Glamis; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2010-11-16

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Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, Lancashire Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The engraving shows soldiers, a marching band, flags and banners, triumphal arches and crowds, with the Clifton Arms Hotel in the background. The Clifton Arms Hotel was being rebuilt, and here I thin [...]

Keywords: processions, people, crowds, buildings, uniforms, soldiers, horses, parades, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Blackpool; Lancashire; England

Added: 2011-01-08

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Neidpath Castle The Scott Country (1920)

“A mile out of [Peebles], to the west, is Neidpath Castle,the most commandingly and romantically situated, and, in spite of the yawning gaps made in its walls by Cromwell’s cannon, the best-preserved— [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, rivers, water, colour

Places shown: Neidpath; Tweeddale; Scotland

Added: 2005-03-17

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Overview map of Cumberland, England Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Cumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Overview map of Durham, England Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Durham; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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6.—Tinmouth Castle The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Tinmouth Castle from the North, with a View of the Haven &c. Northumberland.There was a monastery at Tynemouth as early as the 6th century, and the fortifications were builtby the monks for protection [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, people, cliffs, water, ships, greyscale

Places shown: Tynemouth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2009-11-28

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Overview map of Lancashire, England Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Lancashire; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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A New & Correct MAP of the Counties of Argyle, Bute and Dumbarton The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

A New & Correct MAPof the COUNTIES ofARGYLE,BUTE, andDUMBARTON,Drawn from the latest& Best Authorities.This is part of an antique map from 1786. The original map was probably a fold-out, and had two p [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2007-05-31

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