Items in or near Surrey (results page 8)

Windsor Castle Turrets Towers and Temples (1899)

This shot really brings out the size of the castle, the largest occupied castle in the world and still today a royal palace.

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, colour

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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Orange Court – Drury Lane London (1872)

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry.On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired: [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children, greyscale

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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1150.—The Coronation of Henry IV Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The coronation ceremony shown here, at which Henry IV was crowned and became King Henry IV, took place at Westminster Abbey in October 1399.The engraving (almost certainly on wood) is signed J. Johnso [...]

Keywords: religion, royalty, people, events, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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1156.—Tomb of Henry IV and his Queen Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

One day whilst he was praying before the shrine of [Edward] the confessor in Westminster Ammey, he was seized with an apoplectic fit. The attendants carried him to the abbot’s apartments, and there l [...]

Keywords: tombs, royalty, statuary, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-02-17

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Singleton. Sussex Painted (1906)

The village of Singleton in Sussex was mentioned (according to this book) in the Domesday Book, and has (or had) a manor associated with it. In this bucolic painting we see ducks heading toward a pond [...]

Keywords: villages, buildings, churches, colour

Places shown: Singleton; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-02-24

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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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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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1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A tomb lies in a quiet corner of a church, partly in deep shadow.[...] This is the church of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate (Fig. 1285), formerly the remains of a priory of Benedictine nuns, whose long ro [...]

Keywords: tombs, interiors, churches, spooky, death, statuary, carving, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Bishopsgate; London; England

Added: 2012-09-19

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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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Old Curiosity Shop, London Famous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Charles Dickens’ storyThe Old Curiosity Shopwas published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, ups [...]

Keywords: dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2020-09-19

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Sketch of the Decorations of the unfinished South Wing of the New Houses of Parliament. London (Volume VI) (1841)

When this book was published in 1841, the Houses of Parliament building was not finished; the engraving here shows them partly built.“We should have been glad to have furnished our readers with a view [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, construction, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-11-14

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Newgate – Exercise Yard London (1872)

Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats.Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on th [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The White Tower, or Tower of London The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

“Thistower was erected anno 1079, by William the Conqueror, as a keep to a fortress begun by him in the year 1067, to awe the citizens of london; the architect was Gundulph, bishop of Rochester. Fitz [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-04-11

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1423.—Hever Castle. (From an Original Sketch) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] behaved throughout the whole affair with the utmost prudence. Shehad determiend to be the king’s wife, not his mistress; and from that determnation ensued events, the import [...]

Keywords: castles, cattle, sheep, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hever; Kent; England

Added: 2008-03-03

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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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