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Isis and Oxford Canal Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

In the foreground a man wearing a hat and carrying a bag or box stands at a canal lock; another walks along the towpath. On the river we see someone punting a bot, and a couple of people fishing from [...]

Keywords: canals, sketches, views, people, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-02-03

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VII.—Merton College: The Library Interior The Charm of Oxford (1920)

Merton is the oldest college in Oxford, founded in the 1270s, almost 750 years ago. This sketch gives us a glimpse inside the ancient library with its rows of books so inviting.Merton, as has been sa [...]

Keywords: interiors, libraries, arches, ceilings, colleges, pictures of books, books, greyscale

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2013-06-30

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Chantry Chapel, Warwick Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...]

Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-10-30

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Donnington Castle Castles (1926)

The Gate HouseThe gatehouse dates from 1386, when King Richard II granted Richard Abberbury the Elder the right to fortify ("crenellate") his manor.There is also a plan of Donnington; use the Location [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, ruins, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Donnington; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-05-22

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396.—Tower of Oxford Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There are more pictures of Oxford byLangand alsoHaslehust.

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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397.—Oxford Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Oxford Castle, as it appeared in the Fifteenth Century.

Keywords: castles, towers, people, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Chipping Campden, The High Street Cotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, The High Street

The house in the centre at the back is I think the Market Hall.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-30

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Plate 4.—Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire. History of Wales (1853)

Drawn by H. Gastineau. Engraved by H. W. Bond.Chepstow Castle is near the entrance to the Wye Valley. The region has been designated as an Area of Outstanding Beauty.There is another picture of Chepst [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, water, bridges, boats, trees, arches, people, animals, colour

Places shown: Chepstow; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2004-03-06

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415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...]

Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2022-01-29

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416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-07

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys Cliff Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliffis pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-03-20

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Warwick Castle.—Earl of Warwick Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows:WARWICK CASTLE,NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK.Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have built [...]

Keywords: castles, buildings, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-02-08

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The Muniment Room at Merton College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by R. Kent Thomas.(I think the Muniment Room was built to hold manuscripts, but I am not certain)“The time is the end of the fourteenth century. The forest and the moor stretch to the e [...]

Keywords: entrances, colleges, windows, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-10-04

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Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wallpaper version The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

A version ofStone Henge in Wiltshire [1780]with the publisher’s name removed from the bottom, making it the right shape for many computer screens. There is also awidescreen stonehenge wallpaperversion [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, ruins, temples, megaliths, druids, stone circles, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2008-08-27

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49.—Stone Henge, in Wiltshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Stonehenge in a woodcut from 1786. I would not assume that the drawing is very accurate. In the foreground is a group of people on the ground, to give a sense of scale.Stone Henge, in Wiltshire.Publ [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, megaliths, druids, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2008-08-27

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Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wide-screen version The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

A version ofStone Henge in Wiltshire [1780]cropped and resized for use on an HDTV or a wide-screen computer monitor. There is also a4:3version, e.g. 1600x1200 or 1024x768.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, monuments, ruins, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2008-08-27

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Oxford Oxford (1910)

Line illustration from first page of the book.

Keywords: towns, chapterheads, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-02-22

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West Gate, Warwick Warwick and Leamington (1920)

A shepherd herds his sheep up Warwick’s main street, past mediaeval house.

Keywords: towns, colour, churches, mediaeval, people, animals

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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Magdalen Tower From Christchurch Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by A. Brunet-Debaines

Keywords: colleges, churches, towers, trees, forests, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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