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Old Curiosity Shop, LondonFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Charles Dickens’ story The Old Curiosity Shop was 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, u [...]

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

Places shown: LondonLondon; 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 vie [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, construction, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-11-14

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Newgate – Exercise YardLondon (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 t [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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

“This tower 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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Westminster HallLondon (Volume VI) (1841)

“Interior of Westminster Hall, as seen during the Trial of Lambert, before Henry VIII.” (p. 144)

Keywords: interiors, royalty, halls, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-15

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On the SerpentineThe Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skating, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords.Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental Architecture. XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Sir John Soane, Architect. The Scala Regia is the ante-room and gallery (corridor) at the House of Lords in Westminster; Sir John Soane desig [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, windows, entrances, stairs, steps, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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The Tower of LondonTurrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon.

Keywords: castles, towers, colour

Places shown: London; Middlesex; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...]

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

o Gray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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Dudley Street – Seven DialsLondon (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot. The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tend [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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1805.—Arthur’s Show.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner reading Socitie of Prince Arthur hanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the fro [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Mile End; London; England

Added: 2012-12-05

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The Tower of LondonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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The Tower Of London Castle Diagram (wallpaper version)The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A version of The Tower of London woodcut with the borders and letters removed (and stretched vertically by about 5%) to make a cool wallpaper.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, towers, battlements, boats, water, moats, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher WrenOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

1, St. Dunstan in the East. 2, St. Magnus. 3, St. Benet, Gracechurch-street. 4, St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 5, St. Margaret Pattens. 6, Allhallows the Great. 7, St. Mary Abchurch. 8, St Much [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2004-05-17

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2055.—Fair Lemons and Oranges.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woman with apron tied at her waist carries two baskets, one under her arm and one balanced on her head and resting on top of her broad-brimmed hat; the baskets are filled with fruit. She is a fruit- [...]

Keywords: people, street vendors, beggars, women, baskets, fruit, selling, aprons, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2014-02-17

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2056.—Old Shoes for some Brooms!Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man is standing with half a dozen straw brooms on his back, tied to a stick he holds in his left hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and simple shoes; his coat is in holes, as is his shirt or tunic u [...]

Keywords: street sellers, people, poverty, underworld, men, brooms, barter, london, sixteenth-century costumes, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-03-23

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2086.—Plan of St. Giles in the Fields.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plan of the village of St. Giles-in-the-Fields was made in or before 1840, by which time it was already becoming subsumed into London. 1. The first St. Giles’s Church. 2. Remains of the Walls anc [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: St. Giles in the Fields; London; England

Added: 2016-01-26

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2087.—Westminster About 1600.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The city of Westminster, some four hundred years ago, had the churces and cathedrals of today, but was perhaps somewhat less built-up! Here we are looking across the River Thames at houses, the old pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, rivers, water, churches, cathedrals, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2016-01-31

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