Items in or near Surrey (results page 6)

Jailer walking into the dark Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks with a lighted taper into the back of the crypt. In the foreground we see empty wine-bottles and a wine-barrel (or beer-barrel).This is a detail taken from a larger picture,The crypt of Sa [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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527.—The Western Entrance, Interior, St. Bartholomew’s church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There can be no doubt that we have the original walls, pillars, and arches of the twelfth century; the massive, grand, and simple style of the whole tells truly through the date of their erection. (p. [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, people, arches, pillars, windows, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-09-24

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528.—Prior Rahere’s Tomb. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An elaborate gothick tomb in St. Bartholomew’s Priory.The tomb of Rahere is also in the choir, but it is of somewhat later date than the priory. Nothing so exquisitely beautiful in sculpture as that [...]

Keywords: tombs, death, gothic architecture, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-09-13

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Hastings: The Castle. Round The Coast (1895)

From a Photo. by Poulton & Son.“HASTINGS.—Hastings Castle stands on the brink of the cliff, and presents the most striking view to be found in Sussex. Its principal entrance was necessarily on the lan [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, arches, beaches, views, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Sussex; England

Added: 2006-12-20

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The Birthplace of Charles Dickens The Leisure Hour (1904)

1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth)(By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black)The magazine (Leisure Hour, 1904) contains several illustrations fromThe Dickens [...]

Keywords: birthplaces, houses, buildings, windows, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Portsmouth; Hampshire; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Fort Pitt, Chatham The Leisure Hour (1904)

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) inPickwick(By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black)“The happiest days of Dickens’s childhood were spent [...]

Keywords: fields, people, fences, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and HallCharles Dickens is here shown as a boy of between eight and twelve years of age, worki [...]

Keywords: people, misery, dickens, work, labour, sketches, drawings, tiredness, fatigue, boys, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK) The Leisure Hour (1904)

Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870.The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and,Photochrom Co., Ltd. [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2014-08-07

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565.—Canterbury Cathedral, South Side. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Look at Canterbury. How many changes of architectural taste are not there visible; how many different periods of are history may not be there traced: yet is the effect anywhere discordant?—Oh, he wer [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-08-24

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566,—Cathedral Precinct Gateway. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precinct.“VVe need not subjoin any detailed architectural descriptions. The Cathedral is pleasantly situated in an extensive court, surrounded by gardens, cemetery, th [...]

Keywords: entrances, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-18

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567.—Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“[...] an ancient chair in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, formed also of grey marble, in pieces, which is used for the enthronization of the Archbishops of the See, and which, sayeth tradition, was t [...]

Keywords: chairs, furniture, interiors, cathedrals, churches, arches, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-08-26

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568.—Capital and base, S.E. Transept, Canterbury Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A column, or stone pillar, in Canterbury Cathedral.

Keywords: pillars, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-28

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569.—Staircase in the Conventual Buildings, Canterbury Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Look at Canterbury [Cathedral]. How many changes of architectural taste are not there visible; how many different periods of architectural history may not there be traced: yet is the effect anywhere [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, stairs, arches, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-25

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Leibourn Castle, Kent, Plate 1 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

Pub 10thSept. 1784. by S. Hooper. R GodfreySc.Leibourn Castle (Plate I.)“This castle takes its name from the parish and manor of Laborne, or Leibourn, wherein it stands; and which is situated towards [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Leybourne; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“Examples abound, but both for beauty and accessibility we can refer to no better example than the carving which enriches the entrance to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 30).” (p. 68)Carv [...]

Keywords: statuary, people, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-08-08

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A Glade in the New Forest Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

(From a Photograph by F. G. Short, Lyndhurst)Frederick Golden Short died in 1936, 70 years ago, in the UK; this images is therefore out of copyright and I place the scanned image in the public domain. [...]

Keywords: paths, forests, trees, spooky, colour

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-04-28

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71. Penshurst Place, Kent The Growth of the English House (1909)

Penshurst Place, Kent. The Great Hall.There’s another picture in Wharton’s book,English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.Penshurst Place dates from the first half of the 14th Century, and was origin [...]

Keywords: manors, interiors, fireplaces, windows, ceilings, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-08-04

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New Post Office, London Youth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving)The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-street [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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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 [...]

Keywords: buildings, castles, forts, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2012-09-25

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814.—Henry III From his Tomb in Westminster Abbey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A portrait of King Henry III, based on the effigy of him on his tomb, which is in Westminster Abbey.

Keywords: portraits, royalty, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2007-10-08

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