Items in or near Northumberland (results page 3)

1054.—Kelso. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Among the less distinguished classes of monachism [sic, meaning monasticism] that also sprang out of the original Benedictine, may be mentioned that to whichKelso Abbey, in the town of Kelso, Roxburg [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-16

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1055.—St. Magnus, Kirkwall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Reformation in Scotland, which had so nearly caused the destruction of Glasgow Cathedral, spared one other building of the same kind, and only one—the Cathedral ofSt. Magnus, at the seaport twn of [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Kirkwall; Orkney Islands; Scotland

Added: 2010-04-10

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1056.—Jedburgh Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The Black Canons were introduced into Scotland about the same time as in England. One of their houses was atJedburgh, the inmates [sic] of which came from Beauvais in France, early in the twelfth cen [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Jedburgh; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-12

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1057.—South east View of Melrose Abbey Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Some of the general features of the great abbeys of the Cistercian order, that we have noticed in England, we find repeated in the Scottish housesMelroseandNew Abbey. The former, the mother Cistercia [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-06

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1058.—Melrose Abbey Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Francis Drake, writing in 1742, also observes “Mailross, I shall take it upon me to say, has been the most exquisite structure of the kind in either kingdom.” Lastly comes the poet, also pointing out [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, ruins, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-27

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Courtyard, Naworth Castle The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

The story of the ill-planned rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland has already been told. One of their associates was Leonard Dacre, who held the castle of Naworth, and gathered roun [...]

Keywords: castles, steps, staircases, entrances, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Brampton; Cumberland; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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Smailholm Tower The Scott Country (1920)

According toDiscover the Borders, “This is a well preserved and well restored border tower house dating from the 15th century. Situated on Sandyknowe Farm, it is visible for miles around. Formerly the [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water

Places shown: Sandyknowe; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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1273.—Present State of Borthwick Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Bortwick castle was built in the 1430s; it is inhabited (now as a hotel) and is in good condition, despite the grass growing on the battlements in this 1840s engraving. It capitulated to Cromwell in 1 [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, decay, greyscale

Places shown: Borthwick; Midlothian; Scotland

Added: 2010-05-29

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Thomas Burlings, Elder The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

“I mind very well too, on the afternoon of the dividual same day, that my door-neighbour, Thomas Burlings, popped in; [...] It’s a wearyfu’ thing that whisky. I wish it could be banished to Botany Ba [...]

Keywords: people, beards, colour

Places shown: Dalkieth; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-06

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A Guid Gangin’ Plea Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)

A Guid Gangin’ Plea, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W.An older gentleman sits at a writing desk with a quill pen in his mouth; he is holding what appears to be an opened l [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, writing, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2009-02-07

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Dryburgh Abbey England Beautiful (1936)

“Nestled in seclusion beside a loop on the banks of the Tweed stands the graceful ruins of Dryburgh Abbey.” saysHistoric Scotland.Although the title of the book is “England Beautiful” the author was a [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Dryburgh; Melrose; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2005-03-15

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Roxburgh Castle The Scott Country (1920)

SaysDiscover 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

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Mugo Glen The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

Mungo Glen was a boy apprenticed to Mansie Wauch (the fictional Scottish tailor) at the age of fourteen.“Fro the days in which he had lain in his cradle, [Mungo Glen] had been brought up in a remote a [...]

Keywords: people, children, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-06

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Branxholm Tower The Scott Country (1920)

“It was from Branxholm, on the Teviot above Hawick, that another Scott of the name – generation after generation were Walters – rode forth to rescue ‘Kinmount Willie’ from prison in Carlisle. The Min [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water, trees

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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General Sullivan’s House Harper’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 Du [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, snow, american uprising, houses, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; New Hampshire; USA

Added: 2011-12-23

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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

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Dryburgh Abbey The Scott Country (1920)

The Tomb of Sir Walter ScottThe abbey is said to have been founded in 1150 by the White Friars. Edward II burned it in 1322, and Robert the Bruce partly restored it. Sir Walter Scott is buried in th [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, arches, abbeys, trees, ruins

Places shown: Dryburgh; Melrose; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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John Knox’s Pulpit Queens 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

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An Old Dalkeith Body The Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

The darkness of the latter days came over my spirit like a vision before the prophet Isaiah; and I could see nothing in the years to come but beggary and starvation; myself a fallen-back old man, with [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2007-04-19

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Bemersyde House The 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

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