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52.—Plan of Chambers at Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Camden has given a rude [crude] representation of two caverns near Tilbury in Essex, “spacious caverns in a chalky cliff, built very artificially of stone to the height of ten fathoms [18 metres, or [...]

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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54.—Ground Plan and Section of the Subterranean Chamber at Carrighhill. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I think the place mentioned is probably Carrick, and in particular either the neolithic Carrick East Burial Chamber or Carrigadoon Hill, but I am not certain. At any rate the text makes clear that it [...]

Keywords: plans, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Carrick-on-Suir; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-08-17

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Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wide-screen version The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

A version of Stone Henge in Wiltshire [1780] cropped and resized for use on an HDTV or a wide-screen computer monitor. There is also a 4:3 version, e.g. 1600x1200 or 1024x768.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, monuments, ruins, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2008-08-27

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825.—Waltham Cross Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

On the death of Eleanor, wife of King Edward I: “A long and melancholy journey the mourning king made with [her remains] to the chapel of King Edward the Confessor; and the nation, to whom Eleanor had [...]

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham Cross; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-11-14

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826.—Charing Cross. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of an engraving of a reproduction of a cross originally built for King Edward I to commemorate his late wife, Queen Eleanor. For more details see Fig. 825.

Keywords: crosses, statuary, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-20

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The Font, Winchester Cathedral Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

Note to searchers: this is a baptismal font made of stone. (From a Photograph by H. W. Salmon) “A feature more specially characteristic [of the county of Hampshire] is to be found in the remarkable se [...]

Keywords: christmas, fonts, monuments, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-02-16

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Martyrs’ Memorial and St. Giles Oxford (Haslehust and How) (1910)

Ridley and Latimer were burned to death here in the time of Archbishop Cranmer.

Keywords: monuments, towers, trees, colour, roads

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Martyrs Memorial Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“In Broad Street, under the windows of Balliol, there is a small stone cross in the pavement. This marks the place where, some years ago, a great heap of wooden ashes was found. These ashes were the [...]

Keywords: monuments, spires, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-30

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Napoleon and the Sphinx Great Men and Famous Women, Vol II (1894)

[Napoleon] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East, the glow [...]

Keywords: monuments, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures, colour

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris. Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental architecture. XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris. Albert Bartholomé, sculptor. A stone entranceway is marked Aux Morts, which is, To Death; we see a naked man and a nak [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statuary, carving, monuments, nudity, bare feet, death, architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-11

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