Village Collection (#86)

Country lane passes an octagonal building
A country lane flanked by stone walls, winds upwards past an interesting octagonal building toward a distant peak. Pen & ink drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Lane with small octagonal house
A narrow lane (possibly in the Mediterranean) with a small octagonal building by the roadside. Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Landscape in the evening light
A verdant green countryside view of a farm nestled into a lush English valley in the evening light. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Village pond at Shenley, Hertfordshire
Daffodils on the banks of the village pond at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Totem Pole and Native American House
Postcard from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company from their Totem Pole Route - an example of the totem poles of the indigenous American Indian people of the Southern Alaskan region (Ketchikan)

Rogoznica, Croatia
Panoramic view of Rogoznica, a popular tourist village on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia in a deep bay sheltered from wind

El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria
A woman carrying a huge bundle of palm branches on her back in the suburb of El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria

Sheep in the street / village at Gavarnie, France
Gavarnie is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees department in southwestern France. The village, at an elevation of 4, 452 feet (1, 357 m) in the valley of the Gave (torrent) de Pau

Metelin - Village of Petra, Lesbos, Greece

Black Village Fete - Oran, Algeria
A Black Algerian Village Fete - Oran, Algeria

Mosque - Balkan Exhibition - Earls Court
June 1905 - The Balkan Exhibition at Earls Court, London. A Mosque constructed in the Balkan Village, standing alongside an eastern orthodox Christian church

Gandria, Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Lake Lugano, Switzerland - Village of Gandria

Algeria - Date Market
A Date Market in the South of Algeria

Constantinople - View of Kuzguncuk
This little village is between Beylerbey and Uskudar on the Asian side of Bosphorus. A quiet place, which takes its name from Kuzgun Baba

Carved gateway to Stupa at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh
An ornately carved gateway to the Stupa at Sanchi, a small village in the province of Madhya Pradesh, Central India. The Stupa is a large hemispherical dome with a central chamber containing relics

Madhya Pradesh - Dancing
Villagers performing a traditional circular dance - Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Detail of a carving on the Stupa at Sanchi, Central India
Detail of a carving of a human figure on the Stupa at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

Carriage for the transportation of women
Disused carriage used traditionally for transporting women - could have been pulled by an ox or a horse. Canvas sides with rolling doors

Leanders Tower, Constantinople, also known as Kiz Kulesi, set within a border of a large white seashell. Also known as the Maidens Tower - standing a few hundred metres off the village of Uskudar

Battles of the Marne 1918
A French village under heavy German Artillery and Grenade fire at the Battle of the Marne on the Western Front in France during World War I in July 1918

Capture of St. Quentin 1918
Australian first line troops going in to capture the village of St. Quentin on the Western Front in France during World War I in September 1918

The Village Conjuror
A small boy impresses a group of children and their nurse, by balancing a mop on the end of his chin

Hebuterne 1917
A captured British tank in the village of Hebuterne on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

Ruined Village 1917
Ruins of the village of Serre near Ancre in France on the British front during World War I in 1917

Retreat to Hindenburg Line 1917
German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Military cyclists passing through the village of Vraignes in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Boesinghe 1917
British soldiers leave their billet in a bady shelled village near Boesinghe in Belgium on the British front during World War I in 1917

A Typical English Village
A view of typical English village A local gentleman is fishing in the stream, close to a bridge taking a road up toward the market square and parish church. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Battle of the Marne 1914
French troops advancing through a village at the Battle of the Marne on the Western Front in France during World War I in September 1914

Austrian Tyrol - Rallenberg
The village of Rallenberg in the Austrian Tyrol

Drapery Store at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The drapery store at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. The Homes, laid out as a village of cottage homes, were opened in 1878 by William Quarrier

Wash House at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The wash house at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. The homes, laid out as a village of cottage homes, were opened in 1878 by William Quarrier

Laundry at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The laundry at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Items came to the laundry for finishing after first being washed in the wash house

Llantwit-Vardre Cottage Homes, Glamorgan, Wales
The Pontypridd Union cottage homes at Church Village, Llantwit Vardre, Glamorgan, Wales. The homes, opened in 1892, housed pauper children away from the workhouse

Papua New Guinea - Hanuabada Village

Armenia - Valley Village
Central Armenian village set in a steep valley

South Africa - Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal
South Africa - The Moshudy Lenchwees Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal

Armenia - Village of Aula
Village of Aula - Armenia

Italy - Ox Wagon
An Ox wagon heading along a steeply-descending lane through an Italian village, transporting a large load of wood

Andamatt Village in Switzerland under snow, now a popular skiing resort

Rustic wedding in Kent
A rustic wedding in Kent -- the bride sits on a horse-drawn cart which has been decorated with garlands, and receives a lucky horseshoe from the village blacksmith

Village and Bay of Kozlu, Turkey - General View
The Bay and Village of Kozlu, 6kilometres from Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre

Near Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Greek Hotel Owner
The corpulent and magnificent Greek Hotel proprietor of the Hotel Ephesus at the village of Seljuk close to Smyrna (Izmir), Monsieur Carpouzas

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village viewed from the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans

Household Brigade at Hawthorn Hill Meeting
Prince Alexander of Teck (Queen Marys brother), with his wife Princess Alexander of Teck (Princess Alice of Albany) standing behind the fence on his right, watching the riders at the water jump

Wedding at Lorna Doones church, Devon
An unusual wedding at Lorna Doones church (St Marys Church, Oare, which features in the novel by R D Blackmore), near the village of Malmsmead, Exmoor, Devon

Argentina - El Gato - Costumes of peasants
Costumes of Villagers at an encampment at El Gato - Baile, Argentina

Village of Petit Cap, Quebec, Canada
Petit Cap a fishing village on the Gasp Peninsula in Quebec, Canada

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