Cobbled Collection (#3)

Faenza, Italy - Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Date: circa 1910s

Young boy with his dog cart - Bruges, Belgium
A young boy with his milk dog cart - Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

Gandria - Lake Lugano - Alleyway
Backstreet in Gandria on the shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. A woman walks up a steep cobbled passageway with a wicker basket on her back, past a large wood store

A Local Covent Garden - Colombo, Ceylon
A Local Covent Garden (!) - Colombo, Sri Lanka Date: 1910s

The Golden Cross Inn, Cornmarket, Oxford, England, is the site of the oldest pub in the city. Its landlord was prosecuted for selling blackmarket wine in 1285! Date: 1950s

Clovelly, North Devon
The High Street in Clovelly, North Devon, a picturesque English fishing village: a cobbled pathway descends precipitously to the sea passing terraced cottages Date: 1950s

Scotland / Edinburgh
Tall old buildings in a corner of Calton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: June 1963

York Folk Museum
A re-created early 19th century cobbled street scene, with coach and dummy horseman outside a haberdashery. York Folk Museum, York, Yorkshire, England. Date: 19th century (re-enactment)

The Netherlands - Sluis. The Wemaer-de Groote Cafe Restaurant. Date: circa 1910s

Orta San Giulio - Italy - Strada al Sacro Monte ( Road to the Sacred Mountain ). Sacro Monte, is a site of pilgrimage and in 2003 was inserted by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. Date: 1910

Hamburg, Germany - Chilehaus (Chile House) - an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture. Date: circa 1920s

Cobbles on the road in Stockholm, Sweden circa 2008

Stepcote Hill, Exeter, Devon
Stepcote Hill - the ancient West Entrance to the City of Exeter, Devon. Date: circa 1930s

Gods Provident House - Chester
Gods Provident House - Watergate Street, Chester. This building is famous for its inscription on the front reading: Gods providence is mine inheritance

Frankfurt - Bockenheimer Warte - 15th century Watch Tower and gate. Date: circa 1908

Bruges, Belgium - Women making lace
Lacemaking at Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

View across the Glata Bridge, Istanbul
A blue view from Karakoy toward Galata and the Yeni Camii Mosque across the New Bridge (Galata Bridge) - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: 1919

Clovelly / Devon 1904
Clovelly, North Devon: the main street Date: 1904

Nuremberg / Street 15C
Nuremberg: a horse-drawn litter blocks the cobbled street, but most of the traffic is pedestrian Date: 15th century

Groom with stallion, Mid Wales
A groom with a magnificent stallion in a cobbled area in front of stable doors, probably somewhere in Mid Wales

Family group in cobbled courtyard, Mid Wales
A family (five women and three men) pose for a group photograph in a cobbled courtyard outside a house, probably in the Mid Wales area

Soldiers at Euston Station during 1912 railway strike
A posse of uniformed soldiers with rifles lie down for a rest on the cobbled courtyard outside Euston Station, Central London, during a railway strike in 1912

Two boys with a football in the street
Two small boys in the street, one in a stripy sweater and the other carrying his football

France - Cherbourg - Quai de Caligny
The Quai de Cligny at Cherbourg, Normandy, France

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - The Central Station

Georgian soldiers
Georgian Soldiers

Baku - Azerbaijan - The Quay
Baku, Azerbaijan - the quayside. The Maiden Tower (Kis-Kali) can be seen in the background. Built by the 12th century architect Masud ibn Davud

Georgia - Batumi - The Grand Avenue
The Grand Avenue at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey

Parisian knife-grinder

Street scene in provincial France - A tradesman stand by his mule wagon chatting to the gentleman on the right, who is carrying a brace of chicken wrapped up in a black cloth

Dubrovnik (Ragusa) - Croatia - Street Scene
A beautifully shot street scene in the old medieval quarter of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia, looking toward the imposing shape of Dubrovnik Cathedral

Small backsteet in Prague, Czech Republic

Bosnia - Sarajevo - General Store
A General Store in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - probably selling all kinds of wares, but all that is on show in this scene are some brushes and some sacks of grain

Chambers of the Counts of the Duchy of Nivernais
The rather wonderful gateway into the Chambers of the Counts of the Duchy of Nivernais, at Nevers, France. Nivernais became a Duchy in 1538

Clovelly, Cornwall - Donkey on the cobbled path
Clovelly, Cornwall - One of the traditional donkeys with basket panniers, used to transport goods up and down the steep cobbled paths of this picturesque Cornish coastal village

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Moorish Gate - Tetouan, Morocco - superb open stonework on the arch

Roman road and Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
A cobbled Roman road leading to the Forum Romanum, with the Arch of Titus in the distance, in Rome, Italy

Tangiers, Morocco - The Palace of Justice

Sfax, Tunisia - Souk of the Mosque
The Soul of the Mosque at Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: 1910s

Rue Michelet, Algiers, Algeria
The Rue Michelet, Algiers, Algeria

Children by an ornate doorway
Five children sitting and standing beside an ornate doorway - Algeria

Rouen - France - Old Houses and Fountain
Old Medieval houses and an old fountain on the Rue St Romain, Rouen, France

Tram in Birmingham
A lovely photographic postcard depicting the number 39 tram rounding a corner in Birmingham, England. The upper level has an elegant front balcony. It is the 430th tram of the fleet!

Baker delivering bread - Constantinople, Turkey
A Turkish Baker delivering the morning bread in Constantinople, Turkey. He lifts a stack of loaves out of one of a pair of large reedwork panniers, strapped to the flanks of his pony

New Bridge (Galata Bridge) in the rain
View toward Karakoy across the New Bridge (Galata Bridge) on a very wet day - Constantinople, Turkey

New Bridge (Galata Bridge), Constantinople, Turkey
View from Karakoy toward Galata and the Yeni Camii Mosque across the New Bridge (Galata Bridge). A tram heads across the cobbled span

Turkish General Store
A Turkish general hardware store, selling jugs, pots, baskets, bags, rope, bowls, plates etc

A road sweeper
A rather ragged dustman or road sweeper with his sweeping brushes and shovel, cart and empty bottle of ale! Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Seller of Quince, Constantinople, Turkey

The Andrinople Gate - Constantinople, Turkey

Large Tourer parked on the cobbles

Turkish man and his young daughter
A Turkish man sits outside his house with his young daughter on his knee

Galata Bridge - Constantinople
Galata Bridge and Ferryboat Station, Constantinople, Turkey

Genoese Gate looking East at Galata, Constantinople, leading toward the Genoese-built Galata Tower

The Egyptian Obelisk before the Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet I Mosque - six minarets) looms large behind the Egyptian Obelisk (the Obelisk of Theodosius) which is covered in hieroglyphs

Constantinople / Istanbul, Turkey - Galata
The steps of the Youksek-Kaldrim that lead down towards the Golden Horn

Antalya - Turkish coastal town
Southern Turkish Mediterranean coastal resort of Antalya

Lady leads her sheep to Market - Constantinople
An elderly lady leads her sheep to Market on a string, along a cobbled street - Constantinople, Turkey

A camel train - Constantinople
A camel train passing through Constantinople

Tenerife - Canary Islands, Spain - La Orotava
Church Street, La rotava, Tenerife. Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa

Algeria - Algiers, Boulevard de France et L Amiraute

Metelin, Greece
Metelin, Lesbos, Greece - The Street of the Mosque - after the Island was handed back to Greece from Turkey

Bulgarian Women in patterned floral dresses
Two Bulgarian Women, wearing their dark hair in long plaits and dressed in long pale patterned dresses, seemingly made from the same fabric

Plovdiv - Bulgaria - Views of the City. Plovdiv is situated in the southern part of the Plovdiv Plain on the two banks of the Maritsa River

Algeceras, Spain - Street Scene with a line of horse-drawn Alrededores - horse taxis

British arrival in Pera, Istanbul, Turkey
Arrival of the British occupation force at Pera, Istanbul, Turkey in March, 1920

Morocco - Street Sweepers
Road Sweepers in Morocco, connected by a rope (to prevent them sweeping the same patch twice)

Serbian Worker
A Serbian Worker with backpack and sticks, standing on the cobbled apavement of a provincial town

Galata Bridge (New Bridge) - Constantinople
View toward Karakeui in the hazy late afternoon light across the New Bridge (Galata Bridge). A solitary tram heads across the cobbled span. Postcard by Publishing House of Rochat

Uskudar - Street scene with small minaret
Bosphorus - Asian side - Uskudar (Scutari) - Street scene with a small neighbourhood Mosque. The Imam and Muezzin approach the building

Tunis, Tunisia - The Perfume Market
The Covered Perfume Market - a fabulous arcaded structure with shops and stalls set back from a main thoroughfare lined with columns and round arches

Tunis, Tunisia - Mosque
The Mosque of Sidi Ben Ziad in Tunis, Tunisia seen at the end of a very attractive old street, the houses set back behind a stone colonnade

Tangiers, Morocco - Snake Charmer
Tangiers, Morocco - Street snake Charmer and musician with a Bendir Frame Drum

Morocco - Tangiers - Main Street
Rue Principale - Tangiers, Morocco

A Fountain - Constantinople
At the Fountain (well) - Constantinople

Street scene in Old Jerusalem
Backstreet scene in old Jerusalem, viewed through an archway

Tunis, Tunisia - Rue des Teinturiers (Dyers)

Medressa and Slimania at Tunis, Tunisia
The Medressa and Slimania at Tunis, Tunisia

Constantinople - Haidar Pacha - Hotel Hugel
(German) Hotel Hugel, Haidar Pacha, Constantinople. On Asian side of the Bosphorus in the Uskudar District

Marmaris - Main Square
Turkey - The Main Square (with water fountain) at Marmaris in the province of Caria. The ancient name for Marmaris was Physkos - part of the Rhodian Empire during the reign of Alexander the Great

England / Clovelly
A busy scene outside the tourist shop on the incredibly steep cobbled main street of Clovelly, Devon, England

Spooky London : Midnight
Midnight: A man in a beret waits next to some traffic lights on the Euston Road, London, in this atmospheric photograph

Mermaid Street in Rye
Mermaid Street: a cobbled street in Rye, Sussex

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