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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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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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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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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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The Tower of London England (1898)

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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Lantern-carrier London (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right.‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle lig [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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Watchmen London (Volume I) (1841)

Two men in long winter cloaks walk the night-time streets of London, each carrying a lantern. One also has a hand-bell and both have spears. The image is credited to “Dekker, 1616.”Stow says that in Q [...]

Keywords: people, watchmen, lanterns, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-19

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1048.—Hadley Church Tower and Beacon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“On top of a turret at the South West angle of the tower is an iron cresset, fire pan or pitch-pot, an almost unique survivor of other days. It was erected by the monks to guide wayfarers crossing Enf [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Hadley; London; England

Added: 2003-07-31

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109. Window from Sir Paul Pindar’s House, Bishopsgate. The Growth of the English House (1909)

Now in the Victoria and Albert Musem [London]. Bishopsgate Street is in London.

Keywords: windows, colour

Places shown: Bishopgate; London; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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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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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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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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