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Pictures from In Unfamiliar England by Thos. D. Murphy (Boston, 1910).
This is a book written by an American tourist. It has the advantage that it is in the public domain and the disadvantage that the text isn’t very good!
Title: In Unfamiliar England
City: Boston
Date: 1910
Total items: 10
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Front Cover, In Unfamiliar England
A greenish blue cover with gold foil lettering and a black drawing of a castle. [$]
King Arthur’s Castle, Off Tintagel Head, Cornwall
“After we reached the hotel, the long twilight still gave time to contemplate the weird beauty of the surroundings and to explore the ruins of the castle so famed in song and story. We scrambled down the high headland, upon which the hotel stands, to [...] such a masterly manner in the painting by Mr. Moran, the towering cliffs crowned by the fragmentary ruins looming far above us. A path cut in the edge of the cliff leads to a precarious-looking foot-bridge across the chasm and a still narrower and steeper path hugs the face of the precipice on the opposite side until a heavy oaken door is reached. This door, to which the old caretaker in the cottage below had given me the key, opens into the supposed site of King Arthur’s castle. Only a few scattered bits of masonry remain and these are probably of a later time than that of the early Briton. [more...] [$]
Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, Ripple
“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) [more...] [$]
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