Items in or near Warwickshire (results page 2)

1315.—Weston Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An English village church, with an unusually short tower. Probably the building shown here dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth cenuries; it was extensively restored in the 1890s, some fifty or mor [...]

Keywords: churches, graveyards, people, religion, funerals, death, sadness, children, greyscale

Places shown: Weston; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-08-23

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Stratford Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Interior, seen from the door.The plate is coloured in the original book.The parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon is a large and handsome structure, of the usual cross-form, with a central tower surmou [...]

Keywords: doors, entrances, arches, interiors, colour

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Leycester Hospital Warwick and Leamington (1920)

These buildings mostly date from the 1570s; the site previously belonged to the Guild of the Holy Trinity and St George which was formed in 1383. The BBC has apanoramic tour. This building has been u [...]

Keywords: houses, mediaeval, people, streets, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-11

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Timber Houses, Coventry The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Timber was largely used in the construction of houses, some speciments of which yet remain, the most celebrated being parts of Crosby Hall, in Bishopsgate, London. Coventry also contains some fine and [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Coventry; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2008-03-08

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1801.—A Knotted Garden. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Let us now follow [William Shakespeare] into his retirement (about 1604) at the place so associated with all his early hopes and struggles, and joys and sorrows—Stratford—the place that was evidently, [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, gardens, houses, backgrounds, wallpaper, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2011-05-27

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The East Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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A Saxon Mill England Beautiful (1936)

This is instantly recognizable as the Saxon Mill at Guy’s Cliffe in Warwickshire; it’s mentiontd in the Domesday Book, and there’s a stone dated 1060 by the door, although the mill was running (it’s s [...]

Keywords: mills, buildings, trees, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-11-22

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2333.—Guy’s Cliff Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I visited this in 1984 or so, when it appeeared to be a ruin with broken windows but still surrounded by water and rather hard to reach.There was a statue ofGuy of Warwickhere, although the house is n [...]

Keywords: manors, ruins, backgrounds, wallpaper, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-04-28

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Shottery Cottage William Shakspere Biography (1841)

The cottage in Stratford-on-Avon where William Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, lived as a child. Shottery is the name of a village near Stratford.

Keywords: cottages, houses, greyscale, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Shottery; Stratford-upon-Avon; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-10-12

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Guy’s Cliffe Mill, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

Let all fair pilgrims note the postern door in the stone wall of the Cliffe grounds, near the picturesque Saxon Mill, with its decorative wooden balcony, where John Ruskin loved to linger, listening t [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-15

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Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“The Coventry road to Guy’s Cliffe is a royal and a literary road. Kings, queens, princes, poets, painters and authors have trodden it; also that luckless King’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, whose come [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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The Leam at Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“For from leafy Leamington every old, historic, and romantic spot in the whole of Shakeslpeare’s classic land can be visited and inspected in a day’s ride in carriage, coach, or motor car.” (p. 32)

Keywords: rivers, water, churches, towers, trees, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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In the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“Enter the Jephson Gardens now by this eastern end, and go right through to the Parade, and to the Pump Room and Gardens across the Parade. These handsoe Gardens take their title from the celebrated [...]

Keywords: colour, trees

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-01-09

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“The way to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘nest of a place’ is up the shady Holly Walk, which leads immediately out of the Royal Parade, [...] by the imposing Renaissance Town Hall and the attractive life-siz [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, trees, gardens, dickens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-01

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The Parade and Pump Room, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

“Crossing the gay Parade from the Jephson Gardens just at its very gayest here, the Grand Pump Rooms and Baths, erected in 1813 at a cost of £30,000, and greatly enlarged and improved since, stand bef [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, trees, streets, people, autumn

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-06

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The Old Well House and Parish Church, Leamington Warwick and Leamington (1920)

The Parish Church of Leamington was originally a chapel-of-ease to the mother church of St. Peter’s at Wootton Wawen, in the heart of the Forest of Arden. The Church is said [in this book] to date ba [...]

Keywords: colour, churches, people, gothic

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-06

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Stratford On Avon Stratford on Avon (1908)

A bird’s-eye view of Stratford-on-Avon made by J. Ross Brown in or about 1908. It is not to scale.The key at the bottom left lists the following:A. Shakespeare’s Birth Place.B. Holy Trinity Church, [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-10-23

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Antique Map of Warwickshire The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Antique Map of Warwickshire

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Warwickshire; England

Added: 2008-10-05

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Overview map of Warwickshire, England Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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