Items in or near Essex (results page 8)

Lemonade VendorLondon (1872)

A man with long straggly hair wearing a top hat and an old coat is selling lemonade from a bucket with wooden cups tied to it. “The reader will perceive, in the scenes which have caught the attention [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The Butcher, Newport Market AlleyLondon (1872)

A bearded butcher chops meat, seemingly on a tree-stump, surrounded by his customers. “What! you have no district markets in London! People buy their meat and vegetables in these horrible little shops [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beards, shopkeepers, food, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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2404.—Belsize House.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Belsize House was demolished about the time of this book, or perhaps a few year afterwards. There is still a mulberry tree growing from the gardens (2011). The most noted places of entertainment duri [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2011-03-12

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2440.—The Cockpit.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“We may be grateful that the Cockpit (Fig. 2440) does deal with an amusement that no longer exists—there is hardly even a type left of the class to which it belonged, its gambling adjunct of course ex [...]

Keywords: games, birds, people, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Library, Chapel & Hall, MagdalenCambridge and its Story (1912)

The Library Chapel and Hall, Magdalen College, Cambridge; it is a part of Cambridge University. Lithograph by Herbert Railton, tinted by Fanny Railton. I am not happy with the colour correction on thi [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, buildings, trees, windows, colour

Places shown: Magdalen College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2005-10-02

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Plan of Burgh Castle in Suffolk.The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Burgh Castle is next to Breydon Water on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. It is (or was) a Roman fort, built in the 3rd century. Just the map without the captions and margin An 1845 engraving of the Roman [...]

Keywords: page images, castles, greyscale

Places shown: Burgh Castle; Suffolk; England

Added: 2011-07-10

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Plan of Burgh Castle in Suffolk.The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Burgh Castle is next to Breydon Water on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. It is (or was) a Roman fort, built in the 3rd century. The plan marks the locations of the Prætorian (by which it means the Prætori [...]

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

Places shown: Burgh Castle; Suffolk; England

Added: 2011-07-10

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Nevilles Court, Trinity CollegeCambridge and its Story (1912)

Hmm, this one came out better, I’m encouraged to try some more.

Keywords: colleges, courtyards, windows, gothic, spooky, colour

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2004-03-11

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The Keep, WalmerEngland’s Outpost (1930)

Walmer Castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a rôle tht dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, over a thousand years ago. Walmer castle, however, was built in the sixteent [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, battlements, ivy, creepers, overgrown, masonry, windows, trees, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Deal; Kent; England

Added: 2025-07-16

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Coffee StallLondon (Volume IV) (1841)

A woman with heavy clothing and a scarf over her head is serving hot coffee from a wooden barrel to three people gathered around her small table at a street-corner. In the background a baker’s shop is [...]

Keywords: commerce, people, coffee, street scenes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-05-14

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Buckingham PalaceEngland (1898)

Buckingham Palace, or Buck House is it is affectionately known in the House of Lords, to those who wish to sound so familiar with it that they must undoubtedly be important people, was built in 1703. [...]

Keywords: stately homes, palaces, buckingham palace, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2025-05-05

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Old Shop, corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in 1799London (Volume V) (1843)

The general character of shops in olden London was to have the wares exposed openly to the street, without any barrier of glass between the buyer and seller. Wherever our old topographers and chronicl [...]

Keywords: buildings, shops, architecture, windows, people, old-fashioned, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-25

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First tube train passengersIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The inside of the carriage, with seated passengers, including a lady in a formal gown, men with top hats, a woman with a muffler to warm her hands, and a boy in school uniform with his bag and his pho [...]

Keywords: railways, trains, carriages, passengers, people, interiors, transport, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2025-11-20

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London DrivingThe Leisure Hour (1896)

A man wearing a top hat and brandishing a long horse-whip sits at the front of a coach pulled by four horses. At least nine people are sitting on the roof, with the two at the back perhaps being footm [...]

Keywords: transport, carriages, carts, wagons, horses, wheels, people, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2026-03-26

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Axis Deer (Calcutta)The Leisure Hour (1896)

Axis Deer photographed by Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. (Fellow of the Zoological Society), accompanying the article on the London Zoo, but it is not clear whether they are mentioned in the text: I do see so [...]

Keywords: animals, deer, christmas, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-12-17

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Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870.

Keywords: dickens, people, houses, buildings, exteriors, writrs, greyscale

Places shown: Higham; Kent; England

Added: 2013-06-05

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Gresham’s Royal ExhangeThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

The original building, shown in this engraving, was opened in 1571 but was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666. In connection with the monetary transactions of the earlier part of the reign, the [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor architecture, public buildings, towers, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2015-05-15

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Overview map of Essex, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Essex; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Overview map of Kent, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Kent; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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Overview map of London, EnglandHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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