Items in or near Essex (results page 7)

1732.—Clock at Hampton Court.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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Dudley Street – Seven DialsLondon (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot. The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tend [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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1805.—Arthur’s Show.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner reading Socitie of Prince Arthur hanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the fro [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Mile End; London; England

Added: 2012-12-05

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Old FramlinghamEngland Beautiful (1936)

The photograph shows two of the towers around the curtain wall of Framlingham Castle in Suffolk. The castle was built in the twelth century.

Keywords: castles, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Framlingham; Suffolk; England

Added: 2006-08-01

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Framlingham GateEngland Beautiful (1936)

The entrance to Framlingham Castle in Suffolk; you can see the remains of a coat of arms over the arch.

Keywords: castles, entrances, greyscale

Places shown: Framlingham; Suffolk; England

Added: 2006-09-04

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The Tower of LondonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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The Tower Of London Castle Diagram (wallpaper version)The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A version of The Tower of London woodcut with the borders and letters removed (and stretched vertically by about 5%) to make a cool wallpaper.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, towers, battlements, boats, water, moats, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.Bygone Punishments (1931)

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher WrenOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

1, St. Dunstan in the East. 2, St. Magnus. 3, St. Benet, Gracechurch-street. 4, St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 5, St. Margaret Pattens. 6, Allhallows the Great. 7, St. Mary Abchurch. 8, St Much [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2004-05-17

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2055.—Fair Lemons and Oranges.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woman with apron tied at her waist carries two baskets, one under her arm and one balanced on her head and resting on top of her broad-brimmed hat; the baskets are filled with fruit. She is a fruit- [...]

Keywords: people, street vendors, beggars, women, baskets, fruit, selling, aprons, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2014-02-17

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2056.—Old Shoes for some Brooms!Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man is standing with half a dozen straw brooms on his back, tied to a stick he holds in his left hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and simple shoes; his coat is in holes, as is his shirt or tunic u [...]

Keywords: street sellers, people, poverty, underworld, men, brooms, barter, london, sixteenth-century costumes, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-03-23

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2086.—Plan of St. Giles in the Fields.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plan of the village of St. Giles-in-the-Fields was made in or before 1840, by which time it was already becoming subsumed into London. 1. The first St. Giles’s Church. 2. Remains of the Walls anc [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: St. Giles in the Fields; London; England

Added: 2016-01-26

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2087.—Westminster About 1600.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The city of Westminster, some four hundred years ago, had the churces and cathedrals of today, but was perhaps somewhat less built-up! Here we are looking across the River Thames at houses, the old pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, rivers, water, churches, cathedrals, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2016-01-31

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2088.—The Custom-House, London, as it appeared before the Great Fire. (From a Print by Hollar.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In all this increase of wealth and comfort, London of course took the lion’s share; the days had long passed away when as a port it ranked but a little higher in reputation than the ports of Boston, L [...]

Keywords: views, water, buildings, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Customs House; London; England

Added: 2016-10-04

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2175.—Chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of the inside of the church now called St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (‘without’ being an old word meaning ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’). The modern church was largely rebuilt after being ba [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, pulpits, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2016-01-23

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London Bridge in 1694London (1872)

The old London Bridge shown in this wonderfully emotive engraving was lined with houses all along, a remarkably unsafe construction that did not survive. The bridge [...] survives in its picturesque m [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, bridges, water, houses, people, boats, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2011-09-11

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King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Sixteenth-Century chapel at King’s College in Cambridge University is famous not only for its music but also for its fabulous architecture. This 1845 engraving shows not only the amazing vaulted s [...]

Keywords: colour, interiors, chapels, architecture, windows, columns, religion, valuting, ceilings

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2014-01-31

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2280.—The Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, CambridgeOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Pepys library holds over 3,000 volumes; the building probably dates from 1700 or so. Samuel Pepys himself wrote his name in a number of ways, including Pepis, Pepys, Peeps and Pepes. Pepys Library [...]

Keywords: colleges, people, arches, trees, gothic, greyscale

Places shown: Magdalene College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2005-07-21

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Chapel of St. John’s College, CambridgeOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The chapel is one of the original structures of St. John’s College, the foundation-charter of which is dated April 9, 1511; it forms a part of the east court, or first court, which was completed in 15 [...]

Keywords: interiors, chapels, churches, christianity, windows, colour

Places shown: St. John’s College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2025-12-16

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Gateway of St. John’s CollegeCambridge and its Story (1912)

Founded in 1135 as the Hospital of the Brethren of St. John the Evangelist. The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse pay annually the sum of twenty shillings to compensate the hopital for the housing of s [...]

Keywords: entrances, arches, colleges, towers, gothic, colour

Places shown: St John’s College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2004-03-11

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