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Torquay tourist guide coverFront cover of a guide to British seaside resort, Torquay, Devon, on the English Riviera, featuring an elegant group posed by a palm tree with the town lit up at night in the background. Date: c.1925
Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc
Immanuel Kant / HomeIMMANUEL KANT German philosopher: his home at Konigsberg, Germany
Atlantis (Avotin)The Atlantean capital as described by Plato
Lemuria MapA map of Lemuria at its greatest extent
Corpus Christi College quad, OxfordThe quadrangle of Corpus Christi College Chapel, Oxford. The column sun dial, surmounted with the college symbol, the pelican, can be seen fenced off in the centre of the quad
London Kebab HouseDining outside a Kebab House on Charlotte Street, central London. Date: late 1960s
The Tatler travel number front cover, 1953Charming 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
Saffron Walden by Madge HowardSaffron 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
Lindisfarne - Holy IslandThe ancient, ruined Priory at Lindisfarne, or Holy Island in Northumberland. In the distance is the Castle standing on its whinstone crag
Beckford / Fonthill AbbeyWILLIAM BECKFORD Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, built at enormous expense by the English writer, art collector and eccentric
Leopardi / Villa FerrigniGIACOMO LEOPARDI Villa Ferrigni, Italy, where the Italian poet wrote Ginestra in 1836
Thomas Hardy / LibraryTHOMAS HARDY Thomas Hardys home at Max Gate - the Library
Darwins Study, DownCHARLES DARWINs HOME The study in which he wrote On The Origin Of Species
Washington - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac ParkWashington DC, USA - Japanese Cherry Blossoms - Potomac Park, Riverside Drive. Date: 1920
Lancelot at AstolatASTOLAT Lancelot approaches the castle
Drawing Room at Thomas Hardys home, Max GateView of the Drawing Room at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset, the home of Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet. Hardy designed the house
Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire TheatreThe Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, now the Empire cinema, illuminated at night during a season of performances by the celebrated Russian ballet
Monticello / West FrontThomas Jeffersons home at Monticello - the West Front
Thoreaus PondWalden 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
Wm Armstrong / CragsideSIR WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG Baron Armstrong Engineer, inventor and arms manufacturers home, Cragside, Rothbury
Walpole / Strawberry 1795HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD The Gallery at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters
Gads Hill HouseThe 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"
Map of Atlantis / KircherMap of Atlantis showing position relative to Europe, Africa and America (albeit upside down)
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max GateThomas 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
Beethoven / Bonn BirthplceLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His birthplace at 515 Bonngasse, Bonn The Relic Room Date: 1770 - 1827
French travel posterTravel poster for the French National Railways promoting routes between Paris and London by way of the French and British coasts
French travel posterFrench 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
French travel posterPoster 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
George Eliot / Griff HouseGEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home at Griff House, Nuneaton
Gilbert White / SelborneGILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE Distant view of the birthplace and home of the naturalist, at Selborne, Hampshire
Samuel Johnson / OxfordDR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers room over Pembroke College Gateway in Oxford, where he studied
Newstead Abbey / WebsterThe Seat of the late Lord Byron
Map of Westminster, 1593Map of Westminster, London, 1593
The Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. Date: 1940s
Pillars of Hercules and Baileys restaurantSoho, 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
Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feetSir Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet to prevent her from getting muddy feet. The fanciful, romantic tale of the cloak
A group of Bulgarians. Date: 1880s
Samuel Johnson / ThraleDR SAMUEL JOHNSON Home of the writers friend, Mr Thrale, at Streatham, London: Johnson himself is seen with Mrs Hester Thrale, chatting in the garden
Deptford CreekA view of Deptford Creek, south east London
The casino at Monte Carlo by C. MorseThe 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
Wordsworth / Old RectoryWILLIAM WORDSWORTH English poets home from 1811 to 1813, The Old Rectory, which was demolished in the 1890s Date: 1770 - 1850
Advertisement for Le Touquet1937 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
Map of the Pall Mall area of LondonMap of the Charing Cross, Pall Mall and Pimlico area of central London showing, the famous thoroughfare of Pall Mall with its numerous club houses
Annie Lauries HomeANNIE LAURIE Maxwelton House, Dumfries- shire, Scotland, the birthplace of Annie Laurie in 1682, after whom a famous Scottish ballad was named
Friedrich Von HayekFRIEDRICH VON HAYEK Austrian economist Margaret Thatcher places a laurel wreath on his head
Darwin / Greenhouse / 1882CHARLES DARWIN Greenhouse at his home in Downe, Kent, where the naturalist conducted his research