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Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Illustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877

Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey
Sir Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey GCVO (1885-1947) and his bride, Lady Victoria Manners, a daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland

Boys playing rugby football at Rugby School

Large classroom, Harrow School
A large classroom at Harrow School with several classes held at once

Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV (652-658) and his retinue
Constantine IV (652-685). Byzantine Emperor from and his retinue granting privilege to the Ravennate church. Mosaic. Basilica of Sant Apollinare in Classe. Ravenna. Italy

Eton College courtyard
Scene with teachers and pupils in the courtyard of Eton College

Street scene, Harrow School
Pupils in the street outside Harrow School. Date: 1918

Annual Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lords
Scene during the annual Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lords Cricket Ground in NW London, 13 July 1934

Quadrangle, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Rugby School with pupils playing rugby
Exterior view of Rugby School with pupils playing rugby in foreground. Date: 1906

Schoolboys at Eton College, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire. Date: 1920s

Guests at the Riviera villa of Maxine Elliott, 1933
A page from The Bystander reporting on the distinguished guests being entertained at the Chateau l Horizon, the villa belonging to American actress

Little boy on rocking horse
A rather superior looking little boy dressed in a tartan kilt and Scottish velvet jacket rides on a rocking horse

Almodis De La Marca (?-1071). Countess of Barcelona
" Almodis De La Marca (?-1071). Countess of Barcelona, wife of Ram󮠂 erenguer I.; Ramon Berenguer I (1023-1076). Count of Barcelona and Girona (1035-1076)

Roll call of Etonians on 4 June, Eton School, Berkshire
Roll call of Etonians on 4 June, Eton School, near Windsor, Berkshire -- a special occasion at this famous public school, with a procession of boats, ending with a firework display. Date: 1922

Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire
Boys being taught in the Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire. Date: circa 1905

Penshurst Castle, Kent, England. Ancient manor embattled and fortified by Sir John Devereux in the 14th century, used as a hunting lodge by King Henry VIII. Home of the Sidney family

Tyttenhanger Park, Herefordshire, England. Tyttenhanger House is a red-brick house designed by Inigo Jones built in 1654 in an ancient deer park by Sir Henry Pope Blount

Ednaston Lodge, Derbyshire, England. Winter-scene with Victorian manor house with hothouse owned by the Kingdon family

Shelton Abbey, County Wicklow, Ireland

Oxley Manor, Staffordshire, England. Victorian manor house built to designs by architect Ewan Christian for lawyer Alexander Hordern in 1854

Walton Hall, Warwickshire, England. Gothic-Revival style mansion built by architect Sir George Gilbert Scott for owner Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, in 1858

Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire, England. Medieval-style, Gothic-revival house designed by Sir. George Gilbert Scott for John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury

Lawton Hall. Cheshire, England. 17th-century red-brick house with 18th-century exterior. Home of John Lawton, Esq

Preston Hall, Kent, England. Jacobean-style house built by architect John Thomas for railway contractor Edward Ladd Betts between 1848 and 1866

Easton Hall, Lincolnshire, England. Elizabethan mansion with walled gardens renovated in the mid-19th century for Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet

Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, England. Tudor manor house with embattled parapets built in 1538 for Sir Thomas Kitson and renovated by the owner Sir Thomas Gage in 1775

Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England. Gothic-Revival-style castle with crenellated towers and stained-glass windows built in 1844 for George Ackers

Wynnstay, Denbighshire, Wales. Stately home in the French-palace style designed by Benjamin Ferrey in 18th century gardens landscaped by Capability Brown

Philiphaugh, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Mansion house in the Philiphaugh estate owned by William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund, 3rd Earl of Minto

Rossmore Castle, County Monaghan, Ireland. Georgian Gothic-style castle built in 1827 by Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore, and Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd Baron

Bestwood Lodge. Nottinghamshire, England. Stately home designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon for William Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans

Merevale Hall, Warwickshire, England. Neo-Elizabethen style monumental stately home with Italian gardens designed by architect Edward Blore in 1840 for William Stratford Dugdale

Appleby Castle, Westmorland, England. Norman castle fortified by Lady Anne Clifford in 1641, rebuilt by Thomas, Earl of Thanet, in 1685. Home of Sir Richrard Tufton in 1851

Dartrey House, County Monaghan, Ireland. Neo-Elizabethan country house designed by Scottish architect William Burn built in 1846 for Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey, during the Great Famine

Wolseley Hall, Staffordshire, England. Georgian stately home rebuilt for Sir Charles, 7th Baronet, in the first half of the 19th century

Westonbirt House, Gloucestershire, England. Mansion house designed by architect Lewis Vulliamy for owner Robert Stayner Holford in 1839

Euston Hall, Suffolk, England. Red-brick manor house designed by Matthew Brettingham in 1750 for Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton. Park designed by landscape gardener John Evelyn

Coughton Court, Warwickshire, England. Tudor country house with tower erected by Sir George Throckmorton in the reign of Henry VIII, flanked by wings in the Gothic style

Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, England. Modernised 17th century Jacobean manor house built on a 13th century Augustinian priory. Home of the North family

Arbury, Warwickshire, England. Mansion house in the Gothic Revival style built for Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet, from designs by Henry Keene

Birr Castle, County Offaly, Ireland. Castle built around 1620 and later rebult in the Gothic Revival style by Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse

Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ireland. Ancient abbey and castle redesigned in the Tudor style in 1850 by architect Philip Charles Hardwick for William Henry, Earl of Dunraven

Athlone House, Middlesex, England
Athlone House or Caen Wood Towers, Middlesex, England. Victorian brick house designed in the Gothic and classical styles by Edward Salomons and John Philpot for Edward Brooke in 1872

Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, England
Winter scene with Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, England. Elizabethan-revival style mansion built in 1825 by architect George Webster for Sir Matthew Wilson, 1st Baronet

Studley Castle, Warwickshire, England. Gothic Revival style castle from designs by Samuel Beazley built in 1836 for Sir Francis Lyttelton Holyoake Goodricke, 1st Baronet

Powerscourt, County of Wicklow, Ireland. Granite house with Grecian facade built by architect Richard Cassels for Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, in 1741

Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, England. Neoclassical-style house in red brick built from designs by architect William Smith, remodelled with Jacobean style frontage in the 1830s by Edward Blore

Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk, England. Italian-style house with Corinthian columns built from designs by architect James Hakewill in 1859

Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England. Medieval fortified manor house within a moat, built by Sir John de Broughton in 1300, converted into a Tudor style house by Richard Fiennes in 1554

Cowdray Park, Sussex, England. Tudor-style house with castellated turret, half-timber frame and gables, built in the 19th century. Home of Charles George Perceval, 7th Earl of Egmont

Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Mansion house with Corinthian-order pilasters and pediment built in 1702 by architect James Smith. Home of Walter Francis Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch

Aldby Park, Yorkshire, England. Italian style red-brick house designed by Sir John Vanbrugh with nine-bay frontage built in 1725 by Jane Darley and her husband Henry Brewster-Darley

Deene Park, Northamptonshire, England. Medieval priory now home of James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan, and Adeline Louisa Maria, Countess of Cardigan

Studley Royal, Yorkshire, England. Medieval manor house rebuilt by John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1716. Neoclassical Palladian portico added in 1762 by William Aislabie

Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, England. Old manor house renovated in Gothic castellated style in the Victorian era by Thomas James Agar-Robartes, 1st Baron Robartes

Glynde Place, Sussex, England. Elizabethan manor house built in 1569 and renovated by John Trevor in the 17th century. Home of Henry Robert Brand, MP

Longleat, Wiltshire, England. Elizabethan prodigy house designed by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne in 1579

Denton Hall, Yorkshire, England. Neoclassical mansion designed by John Carr in 1778 for Sir James Ibbetson, 2nd Bart. Home of Marmaduke Wyvill, MP and chess master

Abbotsford, Buckinghamshire, England. Scottish baronial style house built for Sir Walter Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, after 1811 by architect William Atkinson and stonemason John Smith

Tregothnan House, Cornwall, England. Built in 1650, rebuilt in 1845 by Lewis Vulliamy for George Henry Boscawen, 2nd Earl of Falmouth. Famous for its botanical garden

Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, England. Tudor farmhouse converted into a Georgian neoclassical manor house by merchant Charles Savage in 1738

Galloway House, Wigtown, Scotland. Manor house owned by Sir Randolph Stewart, Earl of Galloway

Danesfield House, Buckinghamshire, England. Georgian neoclassical style house built by Robert Scott in 1800, with chapel designed by Augustus Pugin. Home of Charles Robert Scott-Murray, MP

Highcliffe Castle, Hampshire, England. Gothic-style castle featuring Norman and Renaissance masonry, built by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in 1836

Downton Hall, Shropshire, England. The house was built in 1733 by lawyer Wredenhall Pearce, , designed by William Smith Jr. and has a twelve-bay frontage and balustraded parapet

Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire, England. 19th-century country house built in the Gothic style designed by Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley between 1819 and 1840

Westwood Park, Worcestershire, England. Ancient Benedictine monastery, later Elizabethan banqueting hall, and butterfly-plan stately home. Home of John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton

Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire, England. 18th century red-brick house in the Queen Anne Style. Home of Harry Foley Vernon, 1st Baronet of Hanbury Hall

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, England. Palladian neoclassical house built in 1733 by James Paine and later Robert Adam for the Winn family, Baronets of Nostell, on the site of a medieval priory

Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Scottish baronial style castle built in 1815 by James Ochoncar Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, to designs by Archibald Simpson and later John Smith

Ditchley House and gardens, Oxfordshire, England. Fine oak and stone house designed by architect James Gibb in 1722 for George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield

Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, England. Retro Norman castle built in the 12th-century style by Sir Robert Smirke for John Somers Cocks, Earl Somers, 1815

Workington Hall, Cumberland, England. Mansion house built in the time of WIlliam Rufus (11th century) by Patric de Culwen, castellated in 1379, on a hill over the River Derwent

Winter scene with the Down House, Dorsetshire, England. Neoclassical Georgian house with pediment, home of John Smith, 1st Baronet, and Sir John Wyldore Smith, 2nd Baronet

Lathom House, Lancashire, England. Fine Palladian house designed by Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni from 1725 to 1840 for Sir Thomas Bootle, English politician

Franks Hall, Farningham, Kent, England. Elizabethan mansion built by Lancelot Bathurst in 1591, restored by Robert Bradford in 1860

Burton Constable Hall, Yorkshire, England
Fox hunt at Burton Constable Hall, Yorkshire, England. Built in the 12th century, and rebuilt into an Elizabethan mansion in the 1560s by Sir John Constable

Ilam Hall, Staffordshire, England. Owner Jesse Watts-Russell commissioned James Trubshaw to build a new hall to designs by John Shaw in the 1820s

Farnham House, County of Cavan, Ireland. House built in 1700 and redesigned by James Wyatt in 1795 for Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham

Lea Manor, Lincolnshire, England

Floors Castle, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Elton Hall, Northamptonshire, England. Castellated house incorporating a Norman tower and old chapel. Home of Sir Granville Leveson Prosby, Earl of Carysfort

Thrybergh Park, Yorkshire, England. Country house, built before 1831 by John Webb for Colonel John Fullerton

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