Items in or near Essex (results page 2)

Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent). Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929)

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester.From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York. [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-08

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45.—Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also sa [...]

Keywords: royalty, chairs, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-07-09

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5. Castle Hedingham, Essex The Growth of the English House (1909)

Section of the Keep.

Keywords: diagrams, castles, architecture, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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The Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also say [...]

Keywords: colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2012-11-17

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6. Castle Hedingham, Essex. The Growth of the English House (1909)

A Fireplace.
Showing the short flue leading to a vertical vent in the face of the wall.

Keywords: diagrams, fireplaces, castles, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II. London (Volume II) (1841)

The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built.

Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-04-21

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87.—Country near Dover. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: views, hills, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-15

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88.—Dover Cliffs. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats. The plate is signed “SIBLY” but that could be the original artist or the engraver (or both).“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. [...]

Keywords: cliffs, water, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-17

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89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In that curious record, in old French, of the foundation of the Castle of Dover, which we find in Dugdale’s ‘Monasticon,’ we are told that when Arviragus reigned in Britain, he refused to be subject t [...]

Keywords: lighthouses, castles, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2010-09-08

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90.—Dover Cliffs. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats in a storm, and with a barrel floating on a wave.“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to [...]

Keywords: cliffs, water, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-13

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91.—Roman Church in Dover Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Close by the pharos are the ruins of an ancient church (Fig. 89). This church, which was in the form of a cross, was unquestionably constructed of Roman materials, if it was not of Roman work. The til [...]

Keywords: ruins, churches, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2010-09-09

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98.—Plan of Richborough. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A (rather minimal) plan of Richborough castle, an ancient Roman fort on the south-east coast of England, dating to maybe A.D. 43. There is also an amphitheatre at the site. Richborough was the first [...]

Keywords: plans, castles, ruins, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Richborough; Kent; England

Added: 2010-11-17

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99.—Richborough. General View, from the East. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Giant and ancient ruined stone walls on a sharp rise dwarf a small cottage.It is not a lofty castle of the middle ages, such as we sometimes look upon, with tower and bastion crumbling into picturesqu [...]

Keywords: roman remains, walls, ruins, forts, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Richborough; Kent; England

Added: 2012-05-22

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100.—North Wall of Richborough. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man hunts with rifle and dog beside the overgrown Roman walls of Richborough in Southern England. See Fig. 99 for the extract from the book.

Keywords: roman remains, walls, ruins, forts, people, dogs, hunting, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Richborough; Kent; England

Added: 2012-06-12

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101.—Plan of the Platform and Cross, Richborough Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This appears to be a side view, or elevation, rather than a plan, of the platform and cross-shaped mound at the Roman fort of Richborough. See Fig. 98 for more details.

Keywords: diagrams, plans, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Richborough; Kent; England

Added: 2012-03-21

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103.—Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Roman remains still existing at Reculver are less interesting than those at Richborough, chiefly because they are of less magnitude and are more dilapidated. Very close to the ruins of the ancient [...]

Keywords: ruins, churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, towers, spires, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Reculver; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-28

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Tonbridge, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England”

Keywords: houses, cottages, windows, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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The Kitchen Wall, Peterhouse Cambridge (1920)

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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Biddenden, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

SignedSydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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129.—Wall of Burgh Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Burgh Castle is next to Breydon Water on the Norfolk/Suffolk border (today it seems to be in Norfolk, but this Web site uses the 1900 borders so as to be closer to historical sources). It is (or was) [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, roman remains, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Burgh Castle; Suffolk; England

Added: 2004-04-06

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