Chimneys Collection (page 7)

Sterne - Cpxwould Yorks
Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) Coxwould, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, home of the novelist and clergyman: this is where he wrote Sentimental Journey

George Eliot / Richmond
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home of the English novelist at 8 Park Shot, Richmond, where she wrote Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Date: 1819 - 1880

WIRELESS ? a proliferation of aerials Date: 1923

Ae Housman / Fockbury Hous
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN English scholar and poets home, Fockbury House, near Bromsgrove Date: 1859 - 1936

Rw Emerson / Old Manse
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at the Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts (where Hawthorne also lived for a time) Date: 1803 - 1882

Byron / Annesley Hall
ANNESLEY HALL Home of Mary Anne Chaworth, the woman who rejected Byrons proposal of marriage in 1803 Date: 1847

Burns D place Dumfries
ROBERT BURNS House in Dumfries where the Scottish poet died Date: 1759 - 1796

Marylebone Grammar School, Marylebone Road, London
Marylebone Grammar School, " The Old Philo", Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1910

Rochester Row Fire Station, Westminster, SW London. Date: circa 1908

Typical Georgian terrace in Dorset Square, London
Typical five-storey Georgian terrace in Dorset Square in London, with cars parked in the roadway. circa 1930s

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Homestead and Steel Mills
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Birds eye view showing Homestead and Steel Mills. Date: 1937

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Back Cover Souvenir Booklet with impression of the towers and structures of the city Date: 1937

Greetings postcard from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic
Greetings postcard with an embossed surface from Iglau (Jihlava), Czech Republic. Date: circa 1900s

Large coastal mansion, hotel or villa, USA, with some interesting architectural features including a witch-hat turret. Date: circa 1910s

Blast Furnaces, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, USA
Blast Furnaces, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA Date: 1937

General view, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
General rooftop view looking inland, with buildings including the Avenida Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1925

View at Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall
View of Levant Mine and Beam Engine, Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, where tin and copper were mined between 1820 and 1930. Date: circa 1980s

Flooded river, Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
Passaic River in flood, Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA -- the river frequently floods after heavy rainfall or snow thaw. Showing buildings, mills and chimneys. Date: circa 1890s

American football game in progress, USA
American football gridiron game in progress, USA. Date: circa 1910

Snow scene in a moonlit town on a New Year card, with houses and a church. Date: circa 1890s

A man works beneath a car, beneath a car poster, in Eccles
An advertising poster up on a house wall for the new Ford Sierra car (estate and saloon) looks down on a man trying to fix his old car! Date: circa 1980

Rock salt mine, Lyons, Kansas, USA
Rock salt mine at Lyons, Kansas, USA Date: circa 1910

Carnegie Mills, Niles, Ohio, USA
View of the Carnegie Mills, Niles, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1905

Roane Iron Company, Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Roane Iron Company blast furnace at Rockwood, Tennessee, USA. Date: 1906

Plant of B F Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, USA
Plant of the B F Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, USA, specialising in rubber production. Date: circa 1905

Wreck of an airship, Les Images en Musique
The wreck of an airship, getting caught up on a chimney pot and a weathervane, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu

The West Bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
View of the West Bottoms, an industrial area in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Date: 1905

WW2 Christmas card, guard duty
WW2 Christmas card, soldier on guard duty with factories in the distance. Date: 1939

Cottages at Bossington, Somerset -- one thatched, the others with tiled roofs -- with roses in the foreground. circa 1980s

Boys and dog, Packhorse Bridge, Allerford, Somerset
Three boys and a dog at Packhorse Bridge, Allerford, Somerset. Date: circa 1970s

Church Steps, Minehead, Somerset
Church Steps, a steep, narrow lane at Minehead, Somerset. Date: circa 1970s

Factory in the Jizera Mountains, Eastern Europe
Factory in the Isergebirge (Jizera or Izera Mountains), Unterpolaun (now Dolni Polubny in the Czech Republic, near the border with Poland)

H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), English writer, sociologist and historian. Date: 1914

Paris, France - view from Boulevard Arago
Paris, France - view from a Nihilists Window on Boulevard Arago. Date: 1890

Poster, French National Defence
Poster, Emprunt de la Defense Nationale (French war bonds) -- subscribe to save the peace and your freedom. Date: circa 1930

Suggested site for London University
A suggested site for London University: how another fine building might be placed next to the new LCC Hall (later known as County Hall)

Shell damage in Hartlepool, WW1
Shell damage to buildings in Hartlepool after a night of bombing during the First World War. Diagrams show the path of a shell, damaging houses and industrial chimneys. 16 December 1914

Baby Scouts -- flying a plane
Baby Scouts -- Scout-Master Peter, flaxen-haired and plump, above the trees and cottages can jump. Date: 1900

Stone building with dovecote
An interesting stone building with a dovecote on top

Caledonian Road fire station, North London
Caledonian Road fire station, which closed in 1920. Date: 1910

Arwerton Hall Gate
The splendid gatehouse of Arwerton Hall, Suffolk : if all those towers are chimneys, the residents must be nice and warm... Date: 1785

Industry Indicators
Smoking chimneys, indicators of industry! Date: 1930s

Grammar School and Guild Chapel - Stratford-on-Avon, Warkwickshire. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Arsenal at Osaka. The caption for this card is rather charming: " Sound of the Various engines are rolling at the Osaka Arsenal." Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Pit and Railway Tracks
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Pit and Railway Tracks. Date: circa 1910s

The Kitchen / Smokehouse, Fontevrault Abbey, Chinon, France
The Kitchens / Salmon Smokehouse, Fontevrault Abbey, Near Chinon, Anjou, Loire Valley, France - pictured before restoration (before the chimneys were added back on)

Atmospheric skyline of Edinburgh, Scotland - The Auld Reekie
Sensational Judges postcard - An atmospheric skyline of Edinburgh, Scotland - The Auld Reekie -The oldest part of the city. Date: circa 1910

The Sintra National Palace - the Great Chimneys
The Sintra National Palace (Portuguese: Pala£ © o Nacional de Sintra), Town Palace (Pala£ © o da Vila) is located in the town of Sintra, in Portugal near Lisbon

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