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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 1672.—Hulme Hall, Lancashire.—Front View.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Hulme Hall, Lancashire (Fig. 1672), may be looked on as a fair specimen of the very numerous timber-houses that form so conspicuous a class in the domestic architecture of Elizabeth’s time. And most [...] Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor houses, towers, houses, people, horses, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Newton Heath; Lancashire; England Added: 2011-01-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1200x809, 1600x1079, 297x200, 900x607 | Roxburgh CastleThe Scott Country (1920) Says Discover the Borders, “The ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh, favourite of Scottish kings, seated on its massive grassy mound between the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.” Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, trees, water, colour Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland Added: 2004-02-27 + S K L R N |
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1220x852, 200x140, 2440x1705, 286x200, 750x524 | The old tollbooth in Canongate, EdinburghNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881) Die alte Tolbooth in Canongate The old tollbooth is actually rather large and ornate, and dates from 1591. It is the building on the right-hand side of the street, with the clock and the turrets, or b [...] Keywords: streets, buildings, medieval architecture, turrets, wagons, carts, people, street scenes, greyscale Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland Added: 2025-05-02 + S K L R N |
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1231x1046, 1600x1360, 235x200, 700x595, 923x784 | General Sullivan’s HouseHarper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXXIII. (1886) I thought this picture would make a good Christmas Card! It shows the New England house of a wealthy lawyer from the 18th century, snow-covered in a wintry December. John Sullivan was a lawyer in D [...] Keywords: winter, christmas, snow, american uprising, houses, buildings, greyscale Places shown: Durham; New Hampshire; USA Added: 2011-12-23 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 2403.—Game of Shinty.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In shinty (Fig. 2403), which is so favourite a sport in the Highlands of Scotland, the ball is struck by a stick, and the object with each party is to drive it beyond certain opposed boundaries. This [...] Keywords: sports, games, people, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Scotland Added: 2011-01-26 + S K L |
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1079x720, 1439x960, 1918x1280, 299x200, 809x540 | Methley Hall, YorkshireAncestral 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 Mex [...] Keywords: manors, animals, sheep, trees, greyscale Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-04-02 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 131x200, 402x613, 536x817, 714x1090, 952x1453 | John Knox’s PulpitQueens of Scotland, the (1887) John Knox, who had joined them [in the Scottish city of Perth] only a few days before, preached such a vehement sermon against idolatry that he increased the excitement. On the 11th of May[1559], he b [...] Keywords: pulpits, religion, furniture, greyscale Places shown: Perth; Perthshire; Scotland Added: 2012-07-08 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 135x200, 492x728, 656x971, 875x1294 | Bemersyde HouseThe Scott Country (1920) “This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual vi [...] Keywords: houses, buildings, flowers, gardens, trees, colour Places shown: St Boswells; Berwickshire; Scotland Added: 2005-09-19 + S K L R N |
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1200x809, 1600x1078, 297x200, 900x607 | Melrose Abbey: Choir and North TranseptThe Scott Country (1920) “Melrose—“the light of the land, the abode of saints, the grave of monarchs” – is a glorious fragment, more beautiful, perhaps in detail than in general effect, in ornament than in design; and memorab [...] Keywords: abbeys, ruins, windows, arches, trees, colour Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland Added: 2006-01-20 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1044x1031, 1392x1374, 202x200 | Glamis Castle.William Shakspere Biography (1841) The Dunsinane Hills form a long range extending in a north-easterly direction from Perth to Glamis. The castle of the “thane of Glamis” has been made a traditionary scene of the murder of Duncan [in M [...] Keywords: shakespeare, macbeth, castles, towers, people, horses, soldiers, turrets, battlements, greyscale Places shown: Glamis; Perthshire; Scotland Added: 2010-11-16 + S K L R N |
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1024x640, 1024x768, 1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 267x200, 500x313, 800x600 | Opening of a New Promenade and Drinking-Fountain at Blackpool, LancashireIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870) The engraving shows soldiers, a marching band, flags and banners, triumphal arches and crowds, with the Clifton Arms Hotel in the background. The Clifton Arms Hotel was being rebuilt, and here I thin [...] Keywords: processions, people, crowds, buildings, uniforms, soldiers, horses, parades, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Blackpool; Lancashire; England Added: 2011-01-08 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1200x817, 1600x1089, 294x200, 900x613 | Neidpath CastleThe Scott Country (1920) “A mile out of [Peebles], to the west, is Neidpath Castle, the most commandingly and romantically situated, and, in spite of the yawning gaps made in its walls by Cromwell’s cannon, the best-preserve [...] Keywords: castles, towers, rivers, water, colour Places shown: Neidpath; Tweeddale; Scotland Added: 2005-03-17 + S K L R N |
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