Items in England (results page 31)

Bramshill, Façade Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Originally pre-Norman, the present stately house was started at about 1605, and was designed by John Thorpe. It is now a police training centre. There is an 18th century story that thehouse is haunt [...]

Keywords: manors, windows, entrances, colour

Places shown: Hartley Wintney; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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2440.—The Cockpit. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“We may be grateful that the Cockpit (Fig. 2440) does deal with an amusement that no longer exists—there is hardly even a type left of the class to which it belonged, its gambling adjunct of course ex [...]

Keywords: games, birds, people, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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View at Leicester Desiderata (1779)

The caption reads as follows:“1. The Rialto Bridge of one Arch over which K[ing] Richard 3d was carried into the Grey Friers to be buried, which Bridge is now walled up and disused.2. The Place where [...]

Keywords: bridges, people, soldiers, knights, weapons, battles, greyscale

Places shown: Leicester; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2005-08-10

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Great Western express engine Steam and the Steam Engine (1880)

“General Description of a Locomotive.—This is one of the Great Western express engines, running on eight wheels; the large wheel is the driving wheel, the others arecalled the leading and triling whee [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-06

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Library, Chapel & Hall, Magdalen Cambridge and its Story (1912)

The Library Chapel and Hall, Magdalen College, Cambridge; it is a part of Cambridge University.Lithograph by Herbert Railton, tinted by Fanny Railton.I am not happy with the colour correction on this [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, buildings, trees, windows, colour

Places shown: Magdalen College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2005-10-02

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Place House Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Originally there was an abbey here, founded in 1232. After the dissolution it went to Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of Southampton, who mostly demolished it and built the house.

Keywords: manors, windows, chimneys, towers, spooky, colour

Places shown: Titchfield; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Plan of Burgh Castle in Suffolk. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Burgh Castle is next to Breydon Water on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. It is (or was) a Roman fort, built in the 3rd century.Just the map without the captions and marginAn 1845 engraving of the Roman ca [...]

Keywords: page images, castles, greyscale

Places shown: Burgh Castle; Suffolk; England

Added: 2011-07-10

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Plan of Burgh Castle in Suffolk. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Burgh Castle is next to Breydon Water on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. It is (or was) a Roman fort, built in the 3rd century. The plan marks the locations of the Prætorian (by which it means the Prætori [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, castles, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Burgh Castle; Suffolk; England

Added: 2011-07-10

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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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Nevilles Court, Trinity College Cambridge and its Story (1912)

Hmm, this one came out better, I’m encouraged to try some more.

Keywords: colleges, courtyards, windows, gothic, spooky, colour

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2004-03-11

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28.—4-4-0 Engine “City of Truro” British Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

This locomotive was known for breaking the railway speed record in 1904, at over 102 miles per hour.

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-02-16

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The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens Oxford (1910)

Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens.[p. 25]

Keywords: houses, flowers, people, trees, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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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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Corfe Village and Castle In Unfamiliar England (1910)

There has been a castle on this site for well over a thousand years. The buildings there now were started in the 11th century, but were slighted (made insignificant, or at least indefensible) after t [...]

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

Places shown: Corfe Castle; Wareham; Dorset; England

Added: 2006-10-31

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A Cathedral Crypt England Beautiful (1936)

Stone pillars support ancient arches; on the right lies an ornate carved tomb of some long-forgotten knight, shrouded in darkness and alone in death.

Keywords: tombs, cathedrals, interiors, arches, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-07

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Wycliffe’s Pulpit at Lutterworth The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Today John Wycliffe is remembered most for his translation of the Bible; he preached from this stone pulpit in Lutterworth Church.The last half of the fourteenth century found Leicester again connecte [...]

Keywords: pulpits, arches, interiors, church architecture, churches, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Lutterworth; Leciestershire; England

Added: 2013-05-24

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Boscobel House Youth’s Instruction (1830)

This is the house that sheltered King Charles II after the battle of Worcester.Drawn by G. Price. Engraved by Mc. Gahey.Published by J. Mason, 14 City Road.This picture accompanies the entry for Sepp [...]

Keywords: manors, trees, people, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Berwood; Bishops Wood; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-10-28

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John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol. The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. His parents were poor, and he received the merest rudiments of education. As a youth he became notorious for his profanity, but his vigorous n [...]

Keywords: john bunyan, people, writers, prisons, punishments, chains, leg irons, cats, animals, arches, children, men, women, hats, costume, misery, greyscale

Places shown: Bedford; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2018-08-12

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Methley Hall, Yorkshire Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

This building was demolished in 1963, and there is nothing left of it.I find no mention of this Hall in the book, unfortunately.Methley Hall was the country house of the Savile family, Earls of Mexbor [...]

Keywords: manors, animals, sheep, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-04-02

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Coffee Stall London (Volume IV) (1841)

A woman with heavy clothing and a scarf over her head is serving hot coffee from a wooden barrel to three people gathered around her small table at a street-corner. In the background a baker’s shop is [...]

Keywords: commerce, people, coffee, street scenes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-05-14

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