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Title Page The Leisure Hour (1904)

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated MagazineforHome Reading.Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C.Atists in this volume:Barraud, AllanCopping, HaroldDunlop, M. P.Forestire, A.Finnemore,R.I., J.Fu [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham The Leisure Hour (1904)

An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought.“Seldom has a poet come as near to absolute greatness, as Bailey d [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, interiors, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2006-05-13

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Rev. John Wesley The Leisure Hour (1904)

(From the painting by Romney)The article is entitled “John Wesley, Evangelist” and was written by the Rev. Richard Green. John Wesley founded the Methodist movement, and also wrote “A Short History o [...]

Keywords: religion, people, portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-31

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Hobgoblin Hall The Leisure Hour (1904)

A ruined hall, with cobwebs galore, a gothic mansion, a scene of death and decay, of neglect and ruin, a goth dream, perhaps the home of Victor or Victoria from the filmCorpse Bride!“HOBGOBLIN HALL”Sp [...]

Keywords: manors, wallpaper, backgrounds, ruins, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-24

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Tyninghame on the Tyne The Leisure Hour (1904)

“Tyninghame on the Tyne (Residence of the Earl of Haddington)“The glory of Tyninghame is its gardens and trees. Since the days of the sixth Earl of Haddington, the Lords of Tyninghame, the charming m [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Tyninghame; East Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-07-23

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Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costume The Leisure Hour (1904)

Two of the revellers were dressed up to represent an old man and woman in Irish peasant costume. From a great pot in front of them they ladled out boiling tar!A man and a woman in traditional Irish c [...]

Keywords: festivals, people, costumes, thatched cottages, hats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: County Cork; Ireland

Added: 2011-03-14

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King Edward VII. in his uniform as colonel of a Russian regiment. The Leisure Hour (1904)

King Edward VII of England wearing a dress uniform, complete with medals and sword. Anonymous.

Keywords: royalty, people, swords, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Charles Dickens in 1830. The Leisure Hour (1904)

The original painting by Mrs. Janet Barrow is in storage at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is painted on ivory. Mrs. Barrow is said there to have worked between 1817 and 1830, and was Di [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-24

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The Birthplace of Charles Dickens The Leisure Hour (1904)

1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth)(By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black)The magazine (Leisure Hour, 1904) contains several illustrations fromThe Dickens [...]

Keywords: birthplaces, houses, buildings, windows, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Portsmouth; Hampshire; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Fort Pitt, Chatham The Leisure Hour (1904)

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) inPickwick(By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black)“The happiest days of Dickens’s childhood were spent [...]

Keywords: fields, people, fences, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and HallCharles Dickens is here shown as a boy of between eight and twelve years of age, worki [...]

Keywords: people, misery, dickens, work, labour, sketches, drawings, tiredness, fatigue, boys, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Charles Dickens in 1868 The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a photograph by Mason. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall“On the page opposite to that which contains this touching picture we have placed a rmarka [...]

Keywords: portraits, writers, people, beards, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-08

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Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK) The Leisure Hour (1904)

Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870.The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and,Photochrom Co., Ltd. [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2014-08-07

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The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden The Leisure Hour (1904)

Grania’s face was full of tenderness, and her eyes seemed to plead for pardon. The hands she held out to Verney trembled.“Verney Drake did not see his sister-in-law till late in the morning following [...]

Keywords: people, manors, ruins, romance, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-14

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Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands The Leisure Hour (1904)

The farmer stands in a muddy field with one hand on his hip, behind a pair of horses hitched to a single-furrow plough [US: plow]. He wears a hat, a tied neckerchief and tall boots.Specially drawn for [...]

Keywords: people, ploughs, farming, agriculture, rural, fields, horses, animals, farm machinery, ovals, cartici, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2011-03-16

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A Vision of the Future The Leisure Hour (1904)

A vision of a car of the future from May 1905. Amusingly, the two ladies in the passenger compartment are dressed in costume of the period, and appear to be paying no attention to driving: presumably [...]

Keywords: transport, people, aeroplanes, flying cars, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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A Calculating Machine The Leisure Hour (1904)

“Showing the numbers (in black marks) struck on the register, and the keys struck to multiply 2253 by 84. The answer is shown on the register.” (p. 775)

This is a hand-operated calculator.

Keywords: machinery, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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