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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Methley Hall, Wallpaper VersionOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A version of the Methley Hall coloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper. No, I don’t know why some people p [...] Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-08-24 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1265x1790, 141x200, 534x755, 712x1007, 949x1343 | Pottergate, LincolnEngland Beautiful (1936) The remains of a fortified entrance (gate) in the City Walls of Lincoln, called Pottergate. Today it’s a grade I listed building, and is also located on the Viking Way, a footpath in England almost 15 [...] Keywords: battlements, castles, walls, arrow slits, arches, entrances, cathedrals, chuches, towers, christmas, greyscale Places shown: Pottergate; Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2005-04-25 + S K L R N |
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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 |
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1600x1600, 200x200, 675x675, 900x900 | The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral.English Cathedrals (1910) At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...] Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2008-09-11 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1254x1013, 1673x1351, 2091x1688, 248x200, 700x565, 941x760 | The West Front, From the Minster-yard.English Cathedrals (1910) The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...] Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2008-09-11 + 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 |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 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 |
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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 |
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