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736.—Sanctuary, Westminster.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
From a sketch by Dr. Stukeley, before its destruction in 1775One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ver [...]
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Westminster; London; England
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Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I
The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)
Ostenhanger was merged with next-door Westenhanger Castle in 1509; today the manor is open for weddings but the part shown in this woodcut appears to be in ruins.The plate is signed Godfrey. Sc. (i.e. [...]
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Westenhanger; Hythe; Kent; England
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The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury
The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)
The ruins of this little oratory stand near the south-easternmost part of the Abbey-close. It is commonly supposed to be of great antiquity, but this opinion is controverted by Somner, who gives very [...]
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Canterbury; Kent; England
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922. West gate and Holy Cross Church, Canterbury.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
In the great insurrection just mentioned, perished, on Tower Hill, Simon de Sudbury, son of Nicolas Tibald, gentleman, of Sudbury, in Suffolk. He was eighteen years Bishop of London, and, on being el [...]
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churches, gates, battlements, towers, castles
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Canterbury; Kent; England
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93. Horham Hall
The Growth of the English House (1909)
Fig. 93. Horham Hall, Essex (early 16th cent.)“Horham Hall, in Essex, is a good example, moderate in size, of this period. It was built in the early years of the sixteenth century by Sir John Cutt, w [...]
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manors, windows, chimneys, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour
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Horham; Essex; England
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The Tower of London
England (1898)
“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]
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water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale
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London; England
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Lantern-carrier
London (Volume I) (1841)
A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right.‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle lig [...]
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people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale
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London
London; England
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1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
A tomb lies in a quiet corner of a church, partly in deep shadow.[...] This is the church of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate (Fig. 1285), formerly the remains of a priory of Benedictine nuns, whose long ro [...]
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tombs, interiors, churches, spooky, death, statuary, carving, gothic architecture, greyscale
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Bishopsgate; London; England
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Old Curiosity Shop, London
Famous Scenes and Cities (1894)
Charles Dickens’ storyThe Old Curiosity Shopwas published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, ups [...]
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dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale
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London
London; England
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Sketch of the Decorations of the unfinished South Wing of the New Houses of Parliament.
London (Volume VI) (1841)
When this book was published in 1841, the Houses of Parliament building was not finished; the engraving here shows them partly built.“We should have been glad to have furnished our readers with a view [...]
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Westminster; London; England
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Newgate – Exercise Yard
London (1872)
Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats.Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on th [...]
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punishments, prisons, people, greyscale
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London; England
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The White Tower, or Tower of London
The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)
“Thistower was erected anno 1079, by William the Conqueror, as a keep to a fortress begun by him in the year 1067, to awe the citizens of london; the architect was Gundulph, bishop of Rochester. Fitz [...]
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London; England
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