Items in or near Hampshire (results page 6)

Gatehouse, Battle Abbey (wallpaper version) Sussex Painted (1906)

Cropped version ofGatehouse, Battle Abbeyintended for use as a computer desktop background or wallpaper; I cropped the image so it’s 1600x1200 pixels, and also made 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 versi [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2005-09-02

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Gatehouse, Battle Abbey. Sussex Painted (1906)

The abbey at Battle commemorates the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror defeated King Harold on 14th October, 1066, to become the King of England. The buildings were used as a school fr [...]

Keywords: abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2005-09-02

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Two Little Homes—Biddestone England Beautiful (1936)

This book was written by a rich American tourist visiting the UK, and sometimes his condescending attitude that America is the Best Country gets a little too much. But the photo is well done! A thatc [...]

Keywords: houses, thatched cottages, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Biddestone; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2006-06-06

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Under the Beeches England Beautiful (1936)

A narrow English country lane passes beneath the shady canopy of trees. In the foreground is a dry stone wall.

I am guessing this is in Biddestone.

Keywords: trees, roads, greyscale

Places shown: Biddestone; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2006-06-06

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A Doorway Colloquy England Beautiful (1936)

A thatched cottage with an English country garden behind a stone wall, and a huge tree. If you look very closely there are two people standing in one of the doors (thanks to Martina Fuseli for pointin [...]

Keywords: cottages, trees, thatched cottages, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddestone; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2006-06-06

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Glynde Sussex Painted (1906)

An English village near Lewes; the painting shows a half-timbered house with a red tile roof.

Keywords: buildings, houses, villages, roofs, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Glynde; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-02-24

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Mermaid Street, Rye Chatterbox Annual (1916)

Another old street is Mermaid Street, with its famous inn of that name and its beautiful timbered hospitalIn this street lived Samuel Jeakes, a well-known Rye worthy, born in 1623; he was a lawyer and [...]

Keywords: drawings, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Rye; Sussex; England

Added: 2008-10-30

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Ypres Tower, Rye Chatterbox Annual (1916)

[in the Middle Ages] There were three strong gates, and on the south side, looking out across the sea, was a large stone watch-tower, known as the Ypres Tower (pronounced locally ‘Wipers’). It was bu [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: Rye; Sussex; England

Added: 2008-03-21

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The Font, Winchester Cathedral Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Note to searchers: this is a baptismal font made of stone.(From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon)“A feature more specially characteristic [of the county of Hampshire] is to be found in the remarkable seri [...]

Keywords: christmas, fonts, monuments, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-02-16

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Winchester College Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Chamber Court, Winchester College.(From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon)Winchester College Web SiteI found a reference to H. W. Salmon having a photograph used by the Illustrated London News in 1889; in [...]

Keywords: gothic, towers, churches, windows, colour

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-04-28

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Mickleham Priory Sussex Painted (1906)

Ths priory shown here was by 1906 a private dwelling; there was a priory in the village of Mickleham as far back as 1253; there was a church in the village mentioned in the Domesday Book in the 11th c [...]

Keywords: colour, manors, rivers, water, towers

Places shown: Mickleham; Sussex; England

Added: 2010-05-06

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Chained Library in Wimborne Minster. Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

A library room with glass display cabinets in the middle of walls lined with shelves of chained books.“In a room of the eastern tower of Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, is an important collection of ch [...]

Keywords: old books, pictures of books, books, libraries, greyscale

Places shown: Wimborne; Dorset; England

Added: 2005-02-06

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Wolsey’s Hall at Hampton Court Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In 1514, in the parish of Hampton, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York began building a magnificent palace on the north bank of the River Thames...Tudor Histor Web page.“The passage to Wolsey’s Hall is [...]

Keywords: interiors, flags, people, windows, colour, manors, castles

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Romsey Abbey Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

“It is a perfect Norman church, with only the two east windows and the three western bays added by later hands (thirteenth century). The massive piers of the nave arches remind one of Durham, the loft [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, colour

Places shown: Romsey; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-04-28

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1674.—Plan of Buckhurst House, Sussex. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A plan of a sixteenth-century mansion, demolished it seems in the eighteenth century. The text does not seem to explain the numbers on the plan; presumably the woodcut was made for some earlier public [...]

Keywords: plans, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Buckhurst; Withyham; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-01-09

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Hall at Ockwell’s, Berkshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Coloured in the original book.“The old manor-house of Ockwells is situated about one mile westward from bray, in Berkshire. It is one of those mansions built chiefly of timber framework, of which man [...]

Keywords: windows, interiors, colour, paneling, people, animals, furniture

Places shown: Bray; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Netley Abbey Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

“The site of Netley Abbey indeed, like that of all the abbeys of the Cistercian Order, is choice, and was selected by the founders for various reasons. A spot remote from towns, quiet and peaceful, o [...]

Keywords: ruins, windows, arches, colour

Places shown: Netley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-03-22

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Old Chained Bible Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb and Old Chained Bible atNorth Baddesley Church. The bible dates from 1620 and was donated to the church in 1702. The tomb is now in the chancel of the church.(From a Ph [...]

Keywords: books, pictures of books, gravestones, tombs, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: North Baddesley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-09-17

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Wolvesey Castle Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Plan of XIIth Century Castle restored from recent explorations(From a Drawing by N. C. H. Nisbett, A.R.I.B.A.)Norman Clayton Hadlow Nisbett (1860 – 1918) was an architect who worked with Frederic Ric [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, colour

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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2106.—Inn at Charmouth. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I’m not sure if The Queens Arms is the same place. let me know!

Keywords: inns, animals, people, horses, carts, streets, cobbles, christmas, colour

Places shown: Charmouth; Dorset; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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