Images Dated 6th January 2021

Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of teachers will buy for their dinner

Boys at workbenches learning how to use plane

The poet and novelist Katharine Tynan (1861 - 1931), pictured at home with her husband, the writer and barrister, Henry Hinkson, her three children and dog

Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893

Knight of the Order of Alcantara in ceremonial robes, with Cistercian scarlet cross on his cloak

Commander of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, a French military order founded in 1693 by King Louis XIV

Knight of the Order of Saint Lazarus
Knight of Saint Lazarus, a hospitaller order established in the Holy Land in the 12th century. Copied from an illustration by Christoph Weigel in Philipp Bonanni's Ritter-Ordern, 1728

Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit, a French chivalrous order established by King Henry III in 1578. Copied from an illustration by Christoph Weigel in Philipp Bonanni's Ritter-Ordern, 1728

Knight of the Order of the Elephant, the oldest and most important Danish order. It was founded in 1462 by King Christian I

Knight of the Order of the Bath
Knight in ceremonial robes of the Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry founded by King George I in 1725

Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia founded in 1701 by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg

Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Knight in ceremonial robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, founded in 1430 by Phillip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy. In crimson velvet mantle, habit and chaperon (hood) lined with white satin

Knight of the Order of Saint Micheal
Knight in ceremonial robes of the Order of Saint Micheal, a French order of chivalry established in 1469 by King Louis XI

Knights of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Glorious Virgin Mary
Knights of Our Lady of Sorrows 204 and the Glorious Virgin Mary 205

Knight of the Order of the Garter, a British order of chivalry founded in 1344 by King Edward III

Knight of the Order of Saint Stephen in ceremonial robes. The Order of Saint Stephen was a dynastic-military order founded in 1561 by Cosimo de Medici, first Duke of Tuscany

A Teutonic knight and a Knight of Malta
A Teutonic knight in cape and tunic over armour 199 and a Knight of Malta in 18th century ceremonial robes and wig for the taking of vows 200

Raimond du Puy and a Knight of St. Jacob
Raimond du Puy, first Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem or the Knights Hospitaller (194) and a knight of the order of St. Jacob in ceremonial garb (195)

Knight of Malta in battle costume
Knight of Malta in 18th century battle costume, his red jacket decorated with a large white cross on the chest, tricorn, buckle shoes and sword

Grand-Master and Grand-Cross of the Knights of Malta
Grand-Master 196 and Knight of the Grand Cross 197 of the Knights of Malta in ceremonial robes. The Knights Hospitaller, or the Order of St

Knights of Saint Blaise 1 and Montjoie 2
Knights of the Order of Saint Blaise 1 and the Order of Montjoie (Mountjoy) 2. The Order of St. Blaise was a 12th century military order to defend the country against the Muslims

Knights of Saint Catherine 1 and the Sword 2
Knights of the Order of Saint Catherine 1 and the Order of the Sword 2. The Order of Saint Catherine was formed by Christian princes to protect pilgrims who visited the relics of St

Knight of the Order of Constantine in ceremonial robes of blue mantle, white tunic and scarlet hose. Said to have been founded in AD343 by the Roman emperor Constantine

Knight of the Order of Aviz in ceremonial robes. Portuguese religious military order. They wore Cistercian habit, a white mantle with a green fleur-de-lysed cross. over a scarlet tunic

Knight of the Order of Alcantara, a Spanish Cistercian military order founded in 1176. In black cape over white tunic, armed with a sword

Knight of the Order of Aviz in tunic, hose and sword. Portuguese religious Benedictine military order of knights

Knight of the Order of Calatrava in ceremonial robes of white mantle and red habit. Founded in Castile in the 12th century as a Spanish military branch of the Cistercians

Knight of the Order of Calatrava in black hood, fur-lined cape, tunic and apron, armed with a sword. Founded in Castile in the 12th century as a Spanish military branch of the Cistercians

Lady of the Order of the Scarf. It was established by Jean I, King of Castile, in 1390 to immortalize the role of the women of Placentia who helped lift the siege of their town by the English

Knight Templar in garb "no longer of the cross" (177, 178). The Order of the Knights Templar was a military order founded in 1118 by Hugues de Payens

Lady of the Order of the Axe, Spanish female military order founded in Aragon by Raymond Berenger, Count of Barcelona

Two Knights Templar: servant brother (180) and treasurer (181)
Two Knights Templar: a squire or servant brother in black cape holding a sword (180) and a treasurer in white hooded cape (181)

Knight Templar in garb "no longer of the cross", but armed with lance and sword

Knights Templar in batle garb and monastery robes
Two Knights Templar. One in battle garb (175), armed with sword and wearing chainmail armor beneath his tunic and cape with red cross. One in house wear (176), or monastery robes

Two Knights Templar in house wear or monastery robes of cassock and cape with red cross

Knight of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Ordre de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel) in ceremonial robes with feather cap, embroidered mantle and tunic

Knight of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, founded in 1202 by Albert I, Bishop of Riga

Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, England

Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England. Elizabethan house with Jacobean elements built in the 1580s by Robert Smythson for Sir Francis Willoughby

Inverary Castle, Argyll, Scotland

Wilton House, Wiltshire, England. Palladian-style stately home by Inigo Jones and Isaac de Caus built in the 17th century around a Tudor central tower

Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England. Baroque stately home with central dome built in the 18th century by John Vanbrugh for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle

Howsham Hall, Yorkshire, England
Snowy winter scene at Howsham Hall, Yorkshire, England

Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, England. East front of the Jacobean house rebuilt by Henry Flitcroft for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Lord Malton, in the 18th century

Cranbury Park, Winchester, England
Winter scene at Cranbury Park, Winchester, England. Regency era red-brick house built by George Dance the Younger in 1780 for Thomas Dummer

Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Medieval motte castle with seven circular towers built in the 13th century

Brechin Castle, Angus, Scotland. Medieval stone castle built in the 13th century and remodelled by architects Alexander Edward in the 18th century for James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure

Netherhall, Cumberland, England. Medieval stone Pele tower with later redstone extensions and wings added in the Georgian era and 19th century by the owners, the Senhouse family

Lilburn Tower, Northumberland, England

Eggesford House, Devon, England. Elizabethan Gothic-style manor house built in 1820 by architect Thomas Lee for Newton Fellows, 4th Earl of Portsmouth

Meer Hall, Worcestershire, England. Black-timber-framed mansion house with gables and octagonal tower built in 1337 for Thomas Bearcroft

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England. Victorian English Palladian- style and Roman Cinquecento-style house built by Charles Barry in 1851 for George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland

Hutton Hall, Cumbria, England
Hutton Hall or Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria, England. Medieval fortress with Pele tower redeveloped through the centuries by the Fletcher-Vane family

Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Willesley Hall, Leicestershire, England

Brancepeth Castle, County Durham, England. Medieval castle dating to the 14th century remodelled by architect John Patterson for banker and mine owner William Russell and later by Anthony Salvin

Bagshot Park, Surrey, England. Tudor Gothic-style red-brick royal residence built in 1879. Principal residence of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Whole page from The Illustrated London News, July 5, 1856. Notes of the Week, Obituaries of Eminent Persons and Metropolitan News. Date: 1856

Full page from Punch magazine - July 12, 1856 - featuring an article - Rude Questions to a Wife. Date: 1856

Teacher at the front of the class and two at the back, teaching a mixed class about model drawing

Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898), delivering the Peroration of his Speech on the Introduction of the Home Rule Bill, granting Ireland limited self-rule within the British Empire

Outside a photographic establishment - I say, sir - heave us up to have a look at them pictures ! Date: 1856

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