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Biddenden, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed Sydney 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 CastleOld 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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Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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Brewer’s Vat.London (Volume IV) (1841)

A giant beer-barrel at a brewery in London in the 1840s. “The wonderful magnitude of the great London breweries is a familiar source of wonderment. The stacks of casks that might reach, placed side by [...]

Keywords: beer, barrels, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-06-04

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Pound’s Bridge, Near Penshurst, KentArt in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

From a drawing by William Twopeny. “The drawing of Pound’s Bridge, near Penshurst (facing page 14), is in itself a valuable document, recording the condition of the house as it was during the first ha [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-09-19

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi CollegeCambridge (1920)

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352. “Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the f [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge.A Short History of the English People (1902)

Built c. 114 – 1130. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a buri [...]

Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2011-07-26

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Erasmus’ Tower, Queen’s CollegeCambridge (1920)

“The fifteenth century saw four more Colleges added to the list of Cambridge Houses: King’s, 1441; Queens’, 1448; St. Catharine’s, 1473; Jesus, 1495.” (p. 22)

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings

Places shown: Queens’ College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed. [...] “The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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211.—Windows from the Palace of WestminsterOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The windows are supposed here to be of Saxon origin; that is, dating between A.D. 440 and A.D. 1100 or so. “A doorway remaining of the old palace at Westminster exhibits the triangular arch (Fig. 212) [...]

Keywords: windows, arches, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-05-05

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[p.210] The Tower of LondonLondon (Volume II) (1841)

A birds-eye view: a map or plan of the castle. From a Print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society, and engraved from the Survey made in 1597, by W. Haiward and J. Gascoigne, by order of Sir J. Pe [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-07-15

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Old College, Warwick Lane, LondonLondon (Volume II) (1841)

Here we see a cobbled city street, narrow by modern standards, dominated by an octagonal domed building in the background with a tall neoclassical entrance with pillars on either side. In the left for [...]

Keywords: colleges, theatres, domes, streets, alleys, cities, cobbles, carts, wagons, people, christopher wren, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2026-03-11

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261.—Knole, Kent.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 261 - The West Side of the Green Court.

Keywords: manors, creeper, windows, doors, entrances, chimneys, courtyards, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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262.—Knole, Kent.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.

The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.

Keywords: manors, castles, entrances, clocks, windows, towers, doors, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the ThamesAlt-England (1888)

This is an unusual view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, which replaced an earlier cathedral founded in A.D. 64 after it burned down in the Great Fire of London. We see a man leaning out of a st [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, circles, windows, sailing boats, ships, boats, churches, domes, london, rivers, river thames, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2022-06-03

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster AbbeyPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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381.—St. Mary’s Chapel, Hastings Cliff Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hastings Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1070 or so, together with the chapel of St. Mary. Coastal erosion, and, later, French attacks, meant there wasn’t much left by 1400. After the Di [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, arches, churches, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Kent; England

Added: 2011-06-17

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Omnibus CarriageIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

A workman sits in a rather small “omnibus” or railway carriage, seemingly outside the door on a bench, his booted feet resting on an extension of the carriage floor that reaches two railway wheels. Th [...]

Keywords: trains, railways, carriages, wheels, people, men, transport, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2025-11-20

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The Thames Subway at Tower-HillIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

Here we see people lining up to experience the first underground railway in London. There seems to have been a single carriage, dvided into first and second class, and pulled by a steel wire connected [...]

Keywords: railways, trains, subways, underground railways, stations, transport, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2025-11-20

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Plate 3.—Rochester Castle.—Interior.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men stand on a ruined wall and peer into the Keep; the men are brightly dressed. The castle here today was built in A.D. 1080 and the keep is also called Gundolph’s Tower after its builder. Englis [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, colour, people

Places shown: Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2012-05-22

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