Items in or near Surrey (results page 2)

36.—Kit’s Coty House near Aylesford, Kent Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Kit’s Coty House is a neolithic chambered tomb. It is mentioned in Pepys’ diary, but has suffered damage since this plate was made.“We shall have presently to speak of the singular erection near Maids [...]

Keywords: tombs, druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-09-27

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37.—Kit’s Coty House. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait.“The high road from Rochester to Maidstone presents several of those rich and varied prospects which so often in England compensate th [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-01

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38.—King’s Coty House Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Another picture of King’s Coty’s House; compare Fig. 37. There is also a picture of this in Francis Grose’sAntiquities.“Antiquaries have puzzled themselves about the name of this Kentish monument. Ki [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-02

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Beech. The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“The high part of the south-west consists of a vast hill of chalkk rising three hundred feet above the village, and is divided into a sheep-down, the high wood and a long hanging wood, called The Hang [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent). Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929)

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester.From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York. [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-08

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42.—Wayland Smith’s Cave Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the neighbourhood of Lambourn, in Berkshire, are many barrows, and amongst them is found the cromlech called Wayland Smith. The tradition which Scott has so admirably used in his ‘Kenilworth’ that [...]

Keywords: people, caves, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow; Lambourn; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-09

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45.—Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also sa [...]

Keywords: royalty, chairs, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-07-09

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The Map of Berkshire The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Berkshire in England, from 1783.Note: I have only a very few of these: I own volumes one and two of the series, but volume two was sold to me via eBay and was enti [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-08-21

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Plan of Donnington Castle. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

After the [English] civil war was over, Mr. Packer pulled down the ruinous parts of the building, and with the materials erected the house standing under it, now in the occupation of Mark Basket, esq. [...]

Keywords: plans, ruins, castles, greyscale

Places shown: Donnington; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-14

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The Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also say [...]

Keywords: colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2012-11-17

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St. George’s Chapel, Windsor The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The round tower is one of the famous London landmarks, another part of Windsor Castle. The image caption also said, Publish’d the 9th of June 1784 by S. Hooper. T Bonnor scup dirext. [i.e. engraved]; [...]

Keywords: castles, chapels, streets, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-05-30

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Reading Abbey (Background 1) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 2) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made darker and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 3) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Coloured version) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 4) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Plate 1 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper.The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here.The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a time [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Wych Elm. The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“In the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the north-west of the village [of Selborne], on the white malms, stood within these twentyyears a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel,ulmus folio latissi [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-12-12

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Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II. London (Volume II) (1841)

The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built.

Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-04-21

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87.—Country near Dover. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: views, hills, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-15

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