Durham Cathedral
A sepia photograph by W.A. Mansell & Co., London
231mm x 184mm
This photograph depicts a view of Durham Cathedral from the wall, across the river Wear.
Eathorpe. Mill and Mill House
The mill and mill house, Eathorpe. Circa 1920
Eathorpe. Mill House
The Mill House, Eathorpe with group of workers and their horses and carts. Before 1903
Electric launch at Warwick Castle
A photograph of the Countess of Warwick's electric launch on the River Avon at Warwick Castle, taken around 1910.
Boatman Sam Bissell can be seen at the foot of the small jetty.
Faustulus Finding Romulus And Remus
Unknown artist Faustulus Finding Romulus And Remus, 1778 Oil on canvas 1050mm x 1260mm A landscape scene set by a river with many ruins and trees. The painting depicts the story in Roman mythology of ...
Five Views of Leamington Spa
This sepia print postcard features five scenes of Leamington Spa. Clockwise from the top right they are: the Royal Pump Room Gardens, Victoria Bridge, The Parade, the River Leam and the Royal Pump Rooms. ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of descriptive panel
A printer describes his map of Shakespeare's London.
The French printer of this map of London used a corner to describe the city and the River Thames. Although it is in Latin this description would ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of London Bridge
London’s bridge in Shakespeare's time.
London Bridge was lined with houses and shops, and was a route regularly travelled by Shakespeare from his lodgings in the city to his work across the river ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district
Southwark: site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
When Shakespeare arrived in London, aged about eighteen, he found work, possibly as a tender of horses outside a playhouse known as The Theatre ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district
Southwark: a place for entertainment in Shakespeare's time.
The southbank of the river Thames in London was reached from the city only by boat, or across London Bridge. This area, called Southwark, ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of St Paul's and the 'city'
Shakespeare's city home.
Shakespeare lodged in Bishopsgate in the 1590s, and later on the corner of Silver Street in Cripplegate. He would have been familiar with the many printers and bookshops in ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - Westminster (site of the Houses of Parliament) and on the opposite bank Lambeth Palace.
Westminster, and Whitehall Palace in Shakespeare's time.
To the west of the city of London, reached by road through semi-rural suburbs or by river boat, lay the centre of government at Whitehall Palace ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - detail -The Tower of London.
The Tower of London in Shakespeare's time.
The fortress on the banks of the tidal river Thames was a royal palace, and a prison stronghold. It also housed the royal armoury and a public menagerie. ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - A contemporary hand-coloured map of London
London: capital city of Shakespeare's England.
William Shakespeare came to London, England's capital city, about 1588. His career in the next twenty years was centred here, as he became the most popular ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - 'Elizabethan' map of London
The walled City of London in Shakespeare's time.
Elizabethan London was surrounded by ancient walls, with entrances at Ludgate, Billingsgate, Newgate and Bishopsgate. The medieval maze of streets within ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium,c. 1572 - detail - the east of the city and St. Paul's cathedral
St Paul's and the city of London: known by Shakespeare.
The city of London, to which Shakespeare travelled in the 1580s, lay within an almost semi-circular wall, bordered to the south by the River ...
Grandborough.
Grandborough. 1890s
Great Alne. Mill
Great Alne mill and garden. 1920s