Items in or near England (results page 29)

2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher Wren Old 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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2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2048.—Cuirassier, 1645 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

See Fig. 2045.

Keywords: soldiers, people, armour, knights, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2049.—Oliverian or Puritan (Jeffrey’s Dresses) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

See Fig. 2045.

The Puritan is shown carrying a book, presumably the Bible, as his weapon.

Keywords: people, soldiers, religion, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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Edgar’s Gateway, Worcester The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The engraving (signedWhymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th Ce [...]

Keywords: gates, towers, entrances, people, windows, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-14

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Wolvesey Castle Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Plan of XIIth Century Castle restored from recent explorations(From a Drawing by N. C. H. Nisbett, A.R.I.B.A.)Norman Clayton Hadlow Nisbett (1860 – 1918) was an architect who worked with Frederic Ric [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, colour

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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2050.—Helmets, 1645. (From Specimens at Goodrich Court.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Helmets worn by soldiers in the English Civil War. See Fig. 2045 for details.

Keywords: armour, weapons, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-28

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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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Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury Bygone Punishments (1931)

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford.A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat uneve [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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2085.—[Samuel] Butler’s House, Pershore Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows the house where Samuel Butler (1613 – 1680), the English poet, was born. It is a farmhouse like many others from the period in England, with a thatched roof and brick chimneys. it ha [...]

Keywords: houses, farmhouses, samuel butler, hudibras, exteriors, buildings, cottages, poets, people, greyscale

Places shown: Strensham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2018-01-25

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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 ancie [...]

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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2088.—The Custom-House, London, as it appeared before the Great Fire. (From a Print by Hollar.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In all this increase of wealth and comfort, London of course took the lion’s share; the days had long passed away when as a port it ranked but a little higher in reputation than the ports of Boston, L [...]

Keywords: views, water, buildings, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Customs House; London; England

Added: 2016-10-04

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The East Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

...the beholder now looks down a narrow street, on each side of which here and there are dwelling-houses preserving their Elizabethan aspect, and at the further end of which, looming up like the backg [...]

Keywords: towns, streets, churches, spires, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg) Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Version cropped for use as a wallpaper (screen background for computer desktop)

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Admiral Sir William Pen (1621 – 70), son of Giles Penn of Redcliffe, was buried at St Mary Redcliffe Church. He was a squadron commander in Cromwell’s Navy. He received Pennsylvania as a land grant in [...]

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, christmas, colour

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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2103.—Herstmonceaux Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There’s amodern photographand also aMedieval Festivalheld each year. The castle is of brick and dates from 1415. The modern spelling is Herstmonceux, near Hailsham, East Sussex.

Keywords: castles, towers, bridges, entrances, creeper, people, animals, dogs, colour

Places shown: Herstmonceaux; East Sussex; England

Added: 1999-11-01

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2105.—East Basham, Norfolk Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Near Walsingham. “It is a curious and instructive contrast to compare with Herstmonceaux – a true Castle, but in which the domestic mansion was beginning to show itself – with East Basham Hall in Nor [...]

Keywords: manors, ruins, entrances, windows, colour

Places shown: Walsingham; Norfolk; England

Added: 1999-11-01

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2106.—Inn at Charmouth. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I’m not sure if The Queens Arms is the same place. let me know!

Keywords: inns, animals, people, horses, carts, streets, cobbles, christmas, colour

Places shown: Charmouth; Dorset; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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