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The Butcher, Newport Market Alley London (1872)

A bearded butcher chops meat, seemingly on a tree-stump, surrounded by his customers.“What! you have no district markets in London! People buy their meat and vegetables in these horrible little shops! [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beards, shopkeepers, food, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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2404.—Belsize House. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Belsize House was demolished about the time of this book, or perhaps a few year afterwards. There is still a mulberry tree growing from the gardens (2011).The most noted places of entertainment durin [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2011-03-12

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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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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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Old Shop, corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in 1799 London (Volume V) (1843)

The general character of shops in olden London was to have the wares exposed openly to the street, without any barrier of glass between the buyer and seller. Wherever our old topographers and chronicl [...]

Keywords: buildings, shops, architecture, windows, people, old-fashioned, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-25

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Axis Deer (Calcutta) The Leisure Hour (1896)

Axis Deer photographed by Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. (Fellow of the Zoological Society), accompanying the article on the London Zoo, but it is not clear whether they are mentioned in the text: I do see so [...]

Keywords: animals, deer, christmas, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-12-17

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Gresham’s Royal Exhange The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

The original building, shown in this engraving, was opened in 1571 but was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666.In connection with the monetary transactions of theearlier part of the reign, the nam [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor architecture, public buildings, towers, windows, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2015-05-15

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

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

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2003-02-24

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The City of London Seen from the National Liberal Club The British Isles (1905)

From the Painting by charled W. Wyllie.This painting of the London cityscape uses pastel colours, light and perspective to convey distance and, at the same time, the greatness of the cathedral, with t [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, rivers, cathedrals, cities, bridges, colour

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2014-09-27

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Chapel of Henry VII., Westminster Abbey The British Isles (1905)

“Beyond the Confessor’s Chapel, and beyond the imposing Chantry of Henry V., is Henry VII.’s splendid chapel, in the Perlendicular style, with a richly decorated ceiling of fan tracery, and lined with [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-02

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Westminster Hall The British Isles (1905)

“Westminster Hall, built [...] by [William] Rufus, and rebuilt by Richard II., is one of the largest chambers in the world, its fine timbered roof unsupported by pillars.Innumerable are its historic a [...]

Keywords: halls, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-05-18

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[p.242] The Bloody Tower London (Volume II) (1841)

The portcullis stands open, and some soldiers with spears and shields are about to enter. From the crosses on their shields (the symbol of death) they are probably crusaders.

Keywords: towers, castles, entrances, people, weapons, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-07-15

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