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Images and some text from The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 1904/5.
Individual images may or may not be out of copyright here; I cannot guarantee that I have it right, sorry. Photographs taken before 1945 in England by British citizens and not published in other European countries are out of copyright. Engravings and drawings that were commissioned (works for hire) are also out of copyright, as are typographic elements. Other items are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the creator, generally.
Title: The Leisure Hour
City: London
Date: 1904
Total items: 17
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0552-Gads-Hill-Place-q50-292x200.jpg "[picture: Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)]")
Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)
Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Rev. John Wesley]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0307-JohnWesley-q75-127x200.jpg "[picture: Rev. John Wesley]")
(From the painting by Romney)
The article is entitled “John Wesley, Evangelist” and was written by the Rev. Richard Green. John Wesley founded the Methodist movement, and also wrote “A Short History of Methodism” in which he suggests that the movement originated at Oxford university in 1729, amongst a group of fellows [more...] [$]
![[picture: Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0580-who-ploughs-with-pain-q75-147x200.jpg "[picture: Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands]")
Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands
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. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/440-Tyninghame-q75-313x200.jpg "[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]")
![[picture: Hobgoblin Hall]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0401-Hobgoblin-Hall-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Hobgoblin Hall]")
