Houses Collection (page 65)

DUMMY TOWN HOUSES
These dummy houses, in a terrace, 23 & 25 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London, were built to conceal a gap in the terrace, when the inner Circle Line tube was built. Date: 1950s

Iron Age Houses
Well-preserved examples of Iron Age houses, at broch of Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Date: 1st Century BC

Georgian Verandahs
Ornate ironwork verandahs decorating fine Georgian houses at Clifton, Bristol, England. Date: early 19th century

Blaise Castle House, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; a late 18th century mansion, which now houses a folk museum which opened to the public in 1949. Date: late 18th century

Greek Windmill
A typical windmill in Greece, with equally typical town of whitewashed or painted houses in the valley below. Date: early 1930s

Totnes Rooftops
Winter view of Totnes, Devon, England, seen from the castle walls. The houses (note the coal smoke coming from the chimneys) in this view line the towns main street. Date: 1950s

Blackpool Casino
The splendid Art Deco building which houses Blackpool Casino, Lancashire, England. Date: 1930s

Chelsea Foreshore
Stretching along the foreshore to the west of Chelsea Bridge, London, is this long line of old sailing barges. This Barges Graveyard houses many bohemian artistic Londoners. Date: 1940s

Parliament Tourists
Tourists walking around the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, central London. Date: 1978

Fish Street, Shrewsbury
Some interesting old houses in Fish Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Date: 1930s

Victoria Tower Gardens
People relaxing in Victoria Tower Gardens, at the foot of Lambeth Bridge, with the the Houses of Parliament beyond, on a warm Sunday afternoon, London, England. Date: 1950s

Hungarian Parliament
The Houses of Parliament reflected in the icy waters of the River Danube, Budapest, Hungary. Date: 1930s

St. Fagans Castle, near Cardiff, Wales, is a 16th century manor house on the site of a 13th century fortress. In 1948 it became a Welsh folk museum. Date: 16th century

England / Milford
Milford, Derbyshire, England, with its stone houses, memorial cross and church. Date: 1930s

Westminster Eventide
Evening view looking towards the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, from below Waterloo Bridge. Date: 1950s

Helston Floral Dance
THE FLORAL DANCE takes place during Furry day at Helston, Cornwall, England. At noon, couples in evening wear dance between the houses to bring the occupiers good luck. Date: 1950s

English Porch
An interesting wooden porch on one of the old houses in Dorking, Surrey, England. Date: 18th century

Queens Gardens, London
Fine Georgian houses in Queens Gardens, Bayswater, London. Date: early 19th century

Hampstead Houses
Well-kept Georgian terraced houses in Hampstead, a well- to-do area of north London. Date: 1930s

England / Eynsford
England/Eynsford

Lavenham Market Cross
The ancient Market Cross and some of the famous Tudor houses in a corner of Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Date: 1930s

Bridge House
An unusual bridge, near Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales. Two houses are built on a bridge, which also bridges another road on the Mostyn Estate. Date: 1960s

Snowy Suburbia
Suburban houses covered in winter snow. Date: 1960s

Alexander Keiller Museum
The splendid stone built building which houses the Alexander Keiller Museum of archaeological finds, founded in the 1930s, at Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1960s

Condemned Housing
Lovely old terraced houses, sadly due for demolition. Date: 19th century

1930S SEMIS
Neat semi-detached houses and well-cared-for front gardens at Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales. Date: 1930s

England / Lacock
This lucky lone cyclist has the whole of this quiet village to himself. It is Lacock, Wiltshire, a perfect example of Tudor England, with its timbered houses. Date: 1930s

African Houses
Houses in a village in Zanzibar, Tanzania, east Africa. Date: 1966

Tudor Hunting Lodge
Queen Elizabeths Hunting Lodge, Epping Forest, Essex, England. This splendid timber- framed three-storey building was used by royalty when on hunting trips in the forest. Date: 16th century

Condemned Slums
Condemned slum terraced houses in the North of England, abandoned and boarded up, ready for demolition. Date: 1960s

Railway Terraces
Victorian terrace houses beside the railway lines, near Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales. Date: late 19th century

Boundary House, Wellington Terrace (opposite Kensington Gardens), London. One of Londons smallest houses, on the boundary between Kensington and Paddington. Date: 19th century

World War Two Bomb Damage
A couple survey the damage caused by a bomb dropped on the UK during World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Austrian troops marching through Medice, Bosnia, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops marching through Medice, Bosnia, on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Shetland Islands - Lerwick
Lerwick - the capital and main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland (" A Northern Venice" !). Date: circa 1910s

Russian peasant boy asks Papa for candy Date: 1912

Three little girls in straw bonnets on a village green, with a shuttlecock and battledore, a skipping rope and a ball. Their names are Polly, Peg and Poppety. first published 1879

Istanbul, Turkey - The Old Quarter
Istanbul - The Old Quarter (Eski Mahalle). Date: circa 1910s

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Cotton Weaver at work in the open air. On wet days, the weaving is done in a Barri or working shed. Date: circa 1910s

The Netherlands - Veere - Scottish House
An elderly couple in the garden of a Scottish House in Veere, a city in the southwestern Netherlands, on Walcheren island in the province of Zeeland

Jericho, West Bank, Palestine
Jericho - an ancient city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, Israel. Date: circa 1910s

Village on a hill near Gaza, with cacti, WW1
A native village on a hill near Gaza during the First World War. Cacti are growing in the foreground. Date: circa 1917

Sopwith Camel looping the loop, WW1
A British Sopwith Camel fighter biplane looping the loop above the countryside during the First World War. Photo taken from another aircraft

Lannion, France - Rue de Treguier. The cross (lower left) marks the spot where the heroic Breton nobleman Geoffroy de Pont-Blanc died in the defense of Lannion against the English in 1346

Young Princess Elizabeth at Bekonscot
A 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) at Bekonscot in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire - the oldest original model village in the world - April, 1936. Date: 1936

Woman and Liverpool derelict house
A woman points at a terraced house with boarded-up windows in Liverpool, possibly one of the buildings destined to be demolished in the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s. 1960

Dutch houses in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Traditional Dutch houses and architecture in Haarlem, Holland. circa 2008

Houses in the Market Sqare in Bruges
Medieval style houses in the Market Square, Bruges, Belgium circa 2008

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