Items in or near Kent (results page 8)

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

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner readingSocitie of Prince Arthurhanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the front [...]

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 London The 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 par [...]

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

Places shown: London London; 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 ofThe Tower of London woodcutwith 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: London London; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks. Bygone Punishments (1931)

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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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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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 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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2175.—Chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of the inside of the church now called St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (‘without’ being an old word meaning ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’). The modern church was largely rebuilt after being ba [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, pulpits, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2016-01-23

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London Bridge in 1694 London (1872)

The old London Bridge shown in this wonderfully emotive engraving was lined with houses all along, a remarkably unsafe construction that did not survive.The bridge [...] survives in its picturesque ma [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, bridges, water, houses, people, boats, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2011-09-11

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Lemonade Vendor London (1872)

A man with long straggly hair wearing a top hat and an old coat is selling lemonade from a bucket with wooden cups tied to it.“The reader will perceive, in the scenes which have caught the attention o [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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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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Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens. Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870.

Keywords: dickens, people, houses, buildings, exteriors, writrs, greyscale

Places shown: Higham; Kent; England

Added: 2013-06-05

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