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Places Collection (page 2)

Background imagePlaces Collection: Bleak House

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc

Background imagePlaces Collection: Immanuel Kant / Home

Immanuel Kant / Home
IMMANUEL KANT German philosopher: his home at Konigsberg, Germany

Background imagePlaces Collection: Atlantis (Avotin)

Atlantis (Avotin)
The Atlantean capital as described by Plato

Background imagePlaces Collection: Lemuria Map

Lemuria Map
A map of Lemuria at its greatest extent

Background imagePlaces Collection: Spurgeon Places

Spurgeon Places
Places associated with the popular preacher Charles Spurgeon. Date: 19TH CENTURY

Background imagePlaces Collection: London Kebab House

London Kebab House
Dining outside a Kebab House on Charlotte Street, central London. Date: late 1960s

Background imagePlaces Collection: The Tatler travel number front cover, 1953

The Tatler travel number front cover, 1953
Charming illustrated front cover of The Tatlers Travel number showing a number of well-known global landmarks with various intrepid travellers using a multitude of transport methods. Date: 1953

Background imagePlaces Collection: Saffron Walden by Madge Howard

Saffron Walden by Madge Howard
Saffron Walden in Essex, East Anglia, UK, featuring a street of half-timbered houses with pageting (the decorative plaster work typical of the region) covered with snow on a peaceful starry evening

Background imagePlaces Collection: Lindisfarne - Holy Island

Lindisfarne - Holy Island
The ancient, ruined Priory at Lindisfarne, or Holy Island in Northumberland. In the distance is the Castle standing on its whinstone crag

Background imagePlaces Collection: Beckford / Fonthill Abbey

Beckford / Fonthill Abbey
WILLIAM BECKFORD Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, built at enormous expense by the English writer, art collector and eccentric

Background imagePlaces Collection: Leopardi / Villa Ferrigni

Leopardi / Villa Ferrigni
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Villa Ferrigni, Italy, where the Italian poet wrote Ginestra in 1836

Background imagePlaces Collection: Thomas Hardy / Library

Thomas Hardy / Library
THOMAS HARDY Thomas Hardys home at Max Gate - the Library

Background imagePlaces Collection: Darwins Study, Down

Darwins Study, Down
CHARLES DARWINs HOME The study in which he wrote On The Origin Of Species

Background imagePlaces Collection: Washington - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park

Washington - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park
Washington DC, USA - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park, Riverside Drive. Date: 1920

Background imagePlaces Collection: Lancelot at Astolat

Lancelot at Astolat
ASTOLAT Lancelot approaches the castle

Background imagePlaces Collection: Drawing Room at Thomas Hardys home, Max Gate

Drawing Room at Thomas Hardys home, Max Gate
View of the Drawing Room at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset, the home of Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet. Hardy designed the house

Background imagePlaces Collection: Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire Theatre

Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire Theatre
The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, now the Empire cinema, illuminated at night during a season of performances by the celebrated Russian ballet

Background imagePlaces Collection: Monticello / West Front

Monticello / West Front
Thomas Jeffersons home at Monticello - the West Front

Background imagePlaces Collection: Thoreaus Pond

Thoreaus Pond
Walden Pond, where the American writer Thoreau spent two years studying nature and thinking deep thoughts. His cabin was built on land owned by Emerson near Concord

Background imagePlaces Collection: Wm Armstrong / Cragside

Wm Armstrong / Cragside
SIR WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG Baron Armstrong Engineer, inventor and arms manufacturers home, Cragside, Rothbury

Background imagePlaces Collection: Beckford / Fonthill Abbey

Beckford / Fonthill Abbey
WILLIAM BECKFORD Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, built at enormous expense by the English writer, art collector and eccentric

Background imagePlaces Collection: Walpole / Strawberry 1795

Walpole / Strawberry 1795
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD The Gallery at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters

Background imagePlaces Collection: Gads Hill House

Gads Hill House
The fine red brick house at Gads Hill, near Rochester, Kent. It was here that Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, while writing his novel " Edwin Drood"

Background imagePlaces Collection: Newstead Abbey / Webster

Newstead Abbey / Webster
The Seat of the late Lord Byron

Background imagePlaces Collection: Map of Atlantis / Kircher

Map of Atlantis / Kircher
Map of Atlantis showing position relative to Europe, Africa and America (albeit upside down)

Background imagePlaces Collection: Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max Gate

Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max Gate
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, outside his home at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset. Hardy designed the house, and his brother built it -- Hardy and his first wife Emma moved there in 1885

Background imagePlaces Collection: Beethoven / Bonn Birthplce

Beethoven / Bonn Birthplce
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His birthplace at 515 Bonngasse, Bonn The Relic Room Date: 1770 - 1827

Background imagePlaces Collection: French travel poster

French travel poster
Travel poster for the French National Railways promoting routes between Paris and London by way of the French and British coasts

Background imagePlaces Collection: French travel poster

French travel poster
French railway poster advertising the resort of Evian-les-Bains on Lac Leman in the Haute-Savoie region of France and depicting a view of the town

Background imagePlaces Collection: French travel poster

French travel poster
Poster advertising the resorts of Ault-Onival and Bois de Cise in the Somme and Picardy region of France three hours from France via the French National Railway

Background imagePlaces Collection: George Eliot / Griff House

George Eliot / Griff House
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home at Griff House, Nuneaton

Background imagePlaces Collection: Gilbert White / Selborne

Gilbert White / Selborne
GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE Distant view of the birthplace and home of the naturalist, at Selborne, Hampshire

Background imagePlaces Collection: Samuel Johnson / Oxford

Samuel Johnson / Oxford
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers room over Pembroke College Gateway in Oxford, where he studied

Background imagePlaces Collection: Map of Westminster, 1593

Map of Westminster, 1593
Map of Westminster, London, 1593

Background imagePlaces Collection: Thurso from Juniper Bank

Thurso from Juniper Bank
A view of Thurso from Juniper Bank, circa 1935. Date: c.1935

Background imagePlaces Collection: The Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota

The Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. Date: 1940s

Background imagePlaces Collection: Pillars of Hercules and Baileys restaurant

Pillars of Hercules and Baileys restaurant
Soho, London - Greek Street W1 - view of Manette Street (formerly Rose Street) with the Pillars of Hercules public house on the right and Baileys restaurant to the left. Date: 1970

Background imagePlaces Collection: Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet

Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet
Sir Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet to prevent her from getting muddy feet. The fanciful, romantic tale of the cloak

Background imagePlaces Collection: A group of Bulgarians

A group of Bulgarians. Date: 1880s

Background imagePlaces Collection: Samuel Johnson / Thrale

Samuel Johnson / Thrale
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON Home of the writers friend, Mr Thrale, at Streatham, London: Johnson himself is seen with Mrs Hester Thrale, chatting in the garden

Background imagePlaces Collection: Deptford Creek

Deptford Creek
A view of Deptford Creek, south east London

Background imagePlaces Collection: The casino at Monte Carlo by C. Morse

The casino at Monte Carlo by C. Morse
The mecca of the Cote d Azur, artists impression of the famous Casino Terraces at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera. Hither come pleasure-seekers from all quarters of the globe to bask in

Background imagePlaces Collection: Wordsworth / Old Rectory

Wordsworth / Old Rectory
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH English poets home from 1811 to 1813, The Old Rectory, which was demolished in the 1890s Date: 1770 - 1850

Background imagePlaces Collection: Advertisement for Le Touquet

Advertisement for Le Touquet
1937 advertisement for the Westminster hotel at the fashionable French resort, Le Touquet, halfway between London and Paris on the lovely French Channel coast, amidst lovely woods

Background imagePlaces Collection: Map of the Pall Mall area of London

Map of the Pall Mall area of London
Map of the Charing Cross, Pall Mall and Pimlico area of central London showing, the famous thoroughfare of Pall Mall with its numerous club houses

Background imagePlaces Collection: Annie Lauries Home

Annie Lauries Home
ANNIE LAURIE Maxwelton House, Dumfries- shire, Scotland, the birthplace of Annie Laurie in 1682, after whom a famous Scottish ballad was named

Background imagePlaces Collection: Friedrich Von Hayek

Friedrich Von Hayek
FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK Austrian economist Margaret Thatcher places a laurel wreath on his head

Background imagePlaces Collection: Darwin / Greenhouse / 1882

Darwin / Greenhouse / 1882
CHARLES DARWIN Greenhouse at his home in Downe, Kent, where the naturalist conducted his research



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