Manor Collection (page 7)

An Astrolabe
An astrolabe, an astrological instrument, used for measuring the altitude of the stars, Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, England

Sulgrave Manor
The manor house at Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England, ancestral home of the Washington family. Date: 17th century1860

Salt Birthplace
The birthplace of sir Titus Salt at The Old Manor-house, Morley. Date: 1803

Peel (Younger) home - 2
The country home of sir Robert Peel (the younger) at Drayton Manor House, Staffordshire. Date: 1750 - 1850

Peels Funeral
The funeral of sir Robert Peel (the younger) at Drayton Manor, his country residence, after his fatal fall from a horse. Date: 1788 - 1850

Eleanor Gwyns Home
The home of Eleanor Gwyn, actress and mistress of Charles II, at Sandford Manor House, Fulham, London. Date: 1670s

St Pierre, Aosta Valley - Castello dei Conti de La Tour
St Pierre, Aosta Valley, Italy - Castello Sarriod de la Tour (12th century) Date: 1902

Rosamonds Tower - Westenhanger, Kent. Rosamund de Clifford was the Mistress of King Henry II of England ( Fair Rosamund ) - the ruined tower in the north wall is reputed by be their trysting place

Loch Assynt, Calda House and Ardvreck Castle, Scotland
Loch Assynt, Calda House and Ardvreck Castle, Sutherland, north west Highland, Scotland. In 1726, the Clan MacKenzie constructed a more modern manor house nearby (in the foreground in this view)

9th Green - Belmont Manor Golf Course, Bermuda
Belmont Manor Golf Course (now called Belmont Hills ), Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Wright brothers outside Mussel Manor at Shellbeach
The Wright brothers outside Mussel Manor at Shellbeach, 4 May 1909. Date: 1909

Plan of a manor house and common fields 15th Century

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). English novelist. Steventon Manor House. Jane Austen was born and brought up in the rectory which then stood at the bottom of the lane leading up to the manor

The Magic Apples

Umezawa manor in Soshu. Print shows cranes on the ground and in flight with Mount Fuji in the background. Date 1832 or 1833

The Old Castle, Canonbury, London. The manor of Canonbury was constructed by William Bolton of St Bartholomews Priory between 1509 and 1532

Wingfield Manor, I. Derbyshire, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Wingfield Manor, II. Derbyshire, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Convalescent Wounded Soldiers - WWI
During the First World War, injured soldiers returning from the front were often billeted in Stately homes and grand houses

Boyars Manor House, Bucharest
Boyar Manor House - Bucharest, Romania. Published for the General Exhibition of Romania in 1906 Date: 1906

PLATT HALL
Platt Hall, Manchester, England, is an early Georgian house. An earlier building here was once the home of Parliamentarian Charles Worsley. Now a costume museum Date: built 1764

Sherborne House, Gloucestershire Date: 1907

Oakwell Hall Dog Gates
The dog gates at the foot of the staircase of Oakwell Hall, Birstall, Yorkshire, England. These are described in Chapter 15 of the novel Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. Date: late 16th century

Nuneham Courtney, Oxfordshire, England, a model village, built by the Harcourt family in 1764, to replace the old village, which was too near to their new manor house! Date: 1950s

Madeley Manor, Shropshire
The garden front of Madeley Manor, Shropshire, the seat of John Offley Esquire Date: late 18th century

Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, England, is no loner an abbey, but an impressive Elizabethan manor house, built on the site of an Augustinian priory which was founded in 1119. Date: 16th century

Hitchin Dower House
A woman with her dog on the doorstep of the Dower House, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Date: Medieval

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

Sitting an Exam 1975
Pupils sitting an exam at Manor School, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. Date: 1975

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

School Dinners 1969
Pupils eating their school dinners in the Refectory at Manor High School. Date: 1969

A noble hunting party
Dr Syntax sets out from a country manor on a hunt with several gentlemen and a lady riding side-saddle. Fox hounds accompany them

Heather at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, Sussex
View of the gardens at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, West Sussex, showing heather growing near trees. The gardens were developed by William Robinson

Sunken garden, St Catherines Court, near Bath
A view of the sunken garden at St Catherines Court, a Grade I listed Tudor manor house near Bath. Seen here is a small octagonal pond, with paving around it

View of the grounds of St Catherines Court, near Bath
A view of the grounds of St Catherines Court, a Grade I listed Tudor manor house near Bath. Seen here are a series of steps going up a hillside, with an ornately designed stone wall on the left

View of Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks, Kent
A view of Ightham Mote, a moated medieval manor house dating from 1320, at Ivy Hatch, near Sevenoaks, Kent. It is now a National Trust property

Transformation from young tramp to soldier
Before-and-after pictures of a young vagrant transformed into an army cadet over a three-month period with the help of former Oxford Liberal MP Frank Gray

Montauk Manor, Long Island
Montauk Manor, Montauk, Long Island, New York

Garden, Museum Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, Madeira
View of the garden of the Museum Quinta das Cruzes (Manor Estate of the Crosses) in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The museum opened in 1953

Manor Asylum, Epsom, Surrey
A tennis match in progress at the Manor Asylum, Horton Lane, near Epsom in Surrey. The asylum opened in 1900 as the sixth London County Council asylum

Vauxhall Manor
The ancient manor-house of Vauxhall

Marylebone Manor House in the reign of Elizabeth I

Harlaxton House
Harlaxton Hall, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, built by Gregory Gregory in the Jacobean style to replace the ancient manor house (of which we have a nice engraving)

Funeral of John Cornwell
The funeral of John Travers Cornwell, the boy hero of the Battle of Jutland on the Chester, showing his body being conveyed through East London on way to Manor Park

Hughenden Manor, Seat of Lord Beaconsfield, 1881
Engraving showing Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe; the home of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Benjamin Disraeli in his library, Hughenden Manor
Engraving of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, sitting in his library at Hughenden Manor, near High Wycombe

Needy at Xmas 17C
The needy are invited into the manor to enjoy Christmas fare

George V, Queen Mary and the Royal Cadets
Portrait of George V, Queen Mary and their two eldest sons, Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) and Prince Albert (later George VI) in cadet uniform. Taken at Barton Manor, Osborne

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