Dormer Collection

Pork Pie Shop 1960S
Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, renowned for its Melton Mowbray pork pies, named after the town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England

Gentleman with shire horse, Mid Wales
A gentleman holding the reins of a shire horse in front of a house, probably somewhere in Mid Wales. A little girl watches from a distance

Chapel Quad, Lincoln College, Oxford. circa 1890

England / March 1940S
The market town of March, in the Cambridgeshire Fens, England, showing a deserted street, apart from seven bicycles curiously parked outside the Ship Inn!

Narragansett Hotel, Kennebunk Beach, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1920

Mineola Hotel, Fox Lake, Illinois, USA, viewed from across the water. Date: circa 1910s

Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Founded in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society as an Anglican missionary school, it is the oldest university in West Africa

Town Hall, Princess Street, Knutsford, Cheshire. Date: circa 1910

Tudor Cottage vegetable garden, Walton, Essex
Standing in the vegetable garden of Tudor Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, a bowler hatted and bearded gentleman proudly displays one of his marrows, while a woman stands on the path. circa 1900

John Dormer
Brigadier-general JOHN DORMER military commander who took the town of Preston from the Jacobite rebels, though himself severely wounded

Daisy Dormer music hall singer 1883-1947
Daisy Dormer (Kezia Beatrice Stockwell) music hall singer and pantomime favourite. Here as Maid Marion in ?Babes in the Wood?. Music hall stars often performed their hit songs in pantomime

Grand Hotel Belmonte, Funchal, Madeira. Date: circa 1930

The Cottages at Ightham Mote, Kent Date: circa 1920s

Street in Winchelsea, Sussex - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Mary Arden's House, Wilmcote, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Cottages at Otford, near Sevenoaks, Kent - Painted by artist Charles Essenhigh Corke for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Bray village, on the River Thames, Berkshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Rye, Sussex - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Thatched cottage at Garsington, Oxfordshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Biddenden, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Howard Johnson Restaurant, Springfield, New Jersey, USA Date: early 1950s

Chain stores, Woolworths, Boots, Liptons, etc
Chain stores making an inroad into towns in the thirties, including Woolworths, Boots, Freeman Hardy & Willis, and Liptons. Date: circa 1930s

Advertising signs on shops in Hartfield, East Sussex
Advertising signs outside shops in Hartfield, East Sussex. Date: circa 1930s

A village tennis match in the street. Date: circa 1950s

Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), a British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. Date: 1875

Method of moving a house in America, by elevating it on blocks of wood, before moving it to its new location. Date: 1842

Girton College, Cambridge. 1904

Douglas Window, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland

Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), Paris, France. circa 1930s

Corfe Castle near Swanage, Dorset. circa 1938

Gateway to Council House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. circa 1900

Courtyard of The Tabard Inn, Southwark, London, the starting point of Chaucers long narrative poem, The Canterbury Tales. Date: circa 1870s

Hallowell House Hotel, Hallowell, Maine, USA
Hallowell House Hotel, Second Street, Hallowell, Maine, USA, visited in the 19th century by many famous guests, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Date: circa 1910

Palacio Foz, Praca dos Restauradores, Lisbon, Portugal
Palacio Foz, Praca dos Restauradores (Restoration Square), Lisbon, Portugal. Date: circa 1910

Andrew Carnegie, birthplace at Dunfermline, Scotland
Andrew Carnegies birthplace at Dunfermline, Scotland

Court house at Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1908

Man in cottage doorway, Arlington Row, Bibury, Glos
Man in cottage doorway, Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1960s

JACK STRAWS CASTLE
This famous public house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, north London, is named after a ringleader in the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Destroyed in World War Two, rebuilt 1960s. Date: 1920s

Women at attic window, Montmartre, Paris, France
Two young women look out of an attic window on the Rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre, Paris. Date: 1908

Toll House Inn Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. The Toll House was built in 1709, and used for collecting tolls during the days when the whaling industry was at its height. Date: 1934

Moloo Brothers & Co, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa
The general store of Moloo Brothers & Co, stamp dealers and money changers, goldsmiths, jewellers, tailors and outfitters, Acacia Avenue, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika

Greetings card in the shape of a house, with a garden in the background and decorative white and gold edging. Date: circa 1890s

The Cloister, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1908

Chesterfield / Ph / Hoare
Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield

South Street, Eastbourne, Sussex
South Street, viewed from Gildridge Road, Eastbourne, Sussex. 1870

Tremont Street and Ball Avenue, Galveston, Texas, USA
Tremont Street and Ball Avenue (looking east), Galveston, Texas, USA. Date: circa 1910

Colfax Public School No. 4, USA
Colfax Public School No. 4, unidentified location, North America. Date: circa 1920

Skeppsbron 18, Stockholm, Sweden -- AB Stockholm Bank of Upper Norland. Date: circa 1910

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