English Culture Collection (#8)

Interior of the House of Commons before 1834
The interior of the House of Commons, London, before 1834 when the old Houses of Parliament were destroyed by fire. The current buildings were designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin

Plan of the old Royal Palace of Whitehall
A ground plan of the old Royal Palace of Whitehall beside the River Thames in London. The Palace was an enormous collection of buildings

Antique black and white photograph of England and Wales: Southend on sea pier
The pier stretches for 1.33 miles, putting Southend on the map as well as into the record books. First built as a 600-foot (180 m) wooden pier, based on oak piles to attract Tourism to the town

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Vintage engraving from 1879 of Sir Thomas Lawrence RA FRS (13 April 1769 aa 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy

Lawrence Saunders the Martyr
Vintage engraving of Lawrence Saunders (1519 to 1555) an English Protestant martyr whose story is recorded in Foxes Book of Martyrs

Tower of London, seen from the land side

Victorian London - Westminster Stairs
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Showing the Westminster stairs with steamers leaving

Victorian London - Two Pilgrims at Highgate
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century Victorian London England. Two Pilgrims at Highgate

Victorian London - Docks and The Concordia
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century Victorian London England. Showing London Docks and the ship Concordia

Victorian London - On the road
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th century Victorian London showing a crowd of people on the road to the Derby

Victorian London Housing
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Terraced Houses in Inner London circa 1870

Victorian London - Orange Court Drury Lane
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A dark alley, Orange Court Drury Lane. circa 1870 - 1880."

Victorian London - The Choir
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. The Choir of Westminster Abbey

Victorian London - Bishopgate Street
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Bishopsgate is a road and ward in the east part of the City of London

Victorian London - Amenities of the Road
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Surreal chracaters riding on a horse and cart

Victorian London - Holland House Garden Party
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A Garden Party at Holland House, one of the first great houses built in Kensington in London

Victorian Londoners
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England

Victorian London - Caught in the Branches
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A horse-drawn bus has an accident on a crowded London street

Victorian London - Sunday Promenade
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Sunday Promenade at the Zoological Gardens

Victorian London - Found in the Street
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A homeless orphan is cared for in a refuge after being found in the street circa 1870

Victorian London - Rag merchants home
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Rag merchants home Coulston Street, Whitechapel, circa 1870."

Victorian London - Wedding at the Abbey
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A wedding at Westminster Abbey

Victorian London - The New Zealander
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Macaulays New Zealander visiting future London. Macaulays dream of the far future

Victorian London - Home from Holland House
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. People head home through Holland Park, a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Victorian London - Match Seller
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Character sketch of an old man selling matches on the street circa 1870

Victorian London - Westminster Confirmation
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Confirmation of the Westminster Boys at Westminster Abbey

Victorian London - Scripture Reader in a Night Refuge
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A missionary reads from the bible to homeless people in a night refuge, circa 1870."

Victorian London - Newgate Prison Exercise Yard
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Prisoners walk round the exercise yard at Newgate Prison, circa 1870."

Victorian London - Chiswick Fete
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Chiswick Fete

Customers in a Victorian hostelry
Customers taking tea in a Victorian hotel or pub. A waiter and waitress are serving and someone is reading a copy of " Punch"

Victorian restaurant waiter taking an order
A smiling waiter in a Victorian restaurant or gentlemens club, taking an order from a diner. From " Punch, or the London Charivari", Volume LXVIII (68), published in London in 1875

"Minotaur"English ship in Malta
HMS Minotaur was an armoured frigate built for the Royual Navy during the 1860s, taking nearly 4 years to build. The ship spent most of her active career as the flagship for the Channel Squadron

English ship "Devastation"in Ismidt Gulf
English ship " Devastation" in Ismidt Gulf

Hubert Morett Goldsmith of Henry VIII
Vintage engraving of Hubert Morett Goldsmith of Henry VIII by Hans Hobein

Portland from Sandsfoot Castle (Engraved illustration)
" Portland from Sandsfoot Castle. Scanned directly from the Victorian publication Old England by Charles Knight, published in 1845.Just to the West of Weymouth

Queen Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII
Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife - and ultimately widow - of King Henry VIII of England. From " Portraits

Ruins of the Chapter House, Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, England
Originally founded as an Abbey around 680AD, Much Wenlock Priory is on the outskirts of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England

Tomb of the Howard family at Arundel Church, Sussex
The tomb of the Howard family of Arundel, Sesssex, in the parish church of St Nicholas. This church is interesting because it is physically divided between Roman Catholic and Church of England

Mary Rose, warship of English King Henry VIII, woodcut, 1880
Mary Rose, warship of the English King Henry VIII. Wood engraving, published in 1880

Londonderry
View of Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland, 19th Century

Statue of railway pioneer George Stephenson The Illustrated London News
Scanned directly from The Illustrated London News, Saturday December 18, 1852

Kings portraits from coins
Kings Portraits from ancient coins engraved and published by John Tallis and Co in 1841( rare)

King George III with the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
" History Of England :First meeting of George III with the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, engraved by J.Rogers from painting by W.M.Craig and publihed by John Tallis a Company

Sir Hugh Middleton
" Portrait of Sir Hugh Middleton (1560-1631)Engraved by J.Cochran from the original in Glodsmiths Hall London, published by John Tallis

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1433-1504)

Wiiliam Murray
" William Murray firt Earl of Mansfield ob 1793, engraved by H.T.Ryall from the original of Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the collection of the arl of Mansfield

Edward Geoffrey Stanley, Prime Minister
" Edward Geoffrey Stanley, Earl of Derby(1799-1869), engraved by Holl from a photograph by Mayall, published by William Mackenzie (1882)Digital restoration by Pictore.(XXXL)

Francis Bacon (XXXL)
" Portrait of Francis Bacon(1561-1626), Viscount St Alban, English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, jurist, author and scientist

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