Village Collection (#8)

Dr Barnardos Home, Barkingside - aerial view
An aerial view of Dr Barnardos Village Home for Girls at Barkingside in Essex. The home was established on the cottage homes principle

Map of Coventry in Warwickshire, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Coventry in Warwickshire, England Victorian Engraving, 1840. Source: Original edition from my own archives

Map of Exeter in Devon, England Victorian Engraving, 1840
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraving of Map of Exeter in Devon, England Victorian Engraving, 1840. Source: Original edition from my own archives

Illustration of Anglo-Saxon village surrounded by high wooden fence, and moat

Portofino
View on Portofino, small Italian village, protected by UNESCO

Milky Way behind tree, South Island, New Zealand
Milky Way over New Zealands Southern Alps at Mount Cook National Park

View from Lake Constance near Konstanz towards the Alpstein Range with Santis Mountain, Lake Constance, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

The Harbour, Newlyn, Cornwall. 1898
A Two masted lugger PZ 207under sail entering Newlyn harbour. Five crew members are visible on the deck. Another lugger hidden by the sail also enters the harbour ahead of PZ 207

Floating Vietnamese fishing village with rocky coastline

Poduzheme village by Ivan Bilibin
Painting of Poduzheme village by Ivan Bilibin on a Red Cross postcard Date: 1904

Crofters Houses - Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Crofters Houses at Stornoway, a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Date: circa 1910s

Clovelly, Devon OP04926
CLOVELLY, Torridge, Devon. A view up the main cobbled street in Clovelly, with a donkey on the cobbles and a woman standing on the terrace of the New Inn talking to a man below

Picture No. 10741229
Carisbrooke Castle, a historic motte-and-bailey castle, village of Carisbrooke, near Newport, Isle of Wight Date:

STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE 1871. The meeting of Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone at Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, 10 November 1871. Wood engraving, American, 1872, after Godefroy Durand

At the village water pump a97_05320
BARTON HARTSHORN, Buckinghamshire. General view showing people collecting water from the village water pump. A woman is helped by a young girl while two well dressed ladies look

SISLEY: BRIDGE, 1893. Bridge at Moret. Oil on canvas by Alfred Sisley

Hawaiians in the mid-1800s
Diamond Head and Waikiki in the Hawaiian Islands, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

New Amsterdam canal, 1600s
Dutch colonists using the canal in Broad Street, New Amsterdam, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Building the railroad to Bismarck, North Dakota, 1870s
Laying railroad track in winter across the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1879. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Swedish colonists on the Delaware River
Swedes Church and house of Sven Sener on the Delaware River, colonial Pennsylvania. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal, Cheshire
Main avenue at Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal, Cheshire. The homes were opened by the Chorlton Union in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Village shop, Norfolk a98_11268
Ludham, Norfolk. Hardware shop with goods on display. Village shops had a reputation for selling everything, and the stock here has spilled out onto the pavement

English village a079532
A view from an elevated position over an unidentified village lane, showing small whitewashed and thatched cottages either side of the road and a rural landscape of fields beyond

Buddha and Sujata
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) He is entertained by Sujata, daughter of a village lord, who prepares very special foods to nourish him

Iron Age Roundhouse N070430
CARN EUNY ANCIENT VILLAGE, Cornwall. Reconstruction drawing showing farmers and a herd of goats outside a roundhouse by Judith Dobie, English Heritage Graphics Team

Avebury from the air K040333
AVEBURY, Wiltshire. Aerial view of the site looking north east

Steps of colorful blue historical village
ancient civilization, blue, Chefchaouen, color image, copy space, day, flower, heritage, historical, low angle view, Morocco, outdoors, people, photography, potted plant, running, staircase

Scenes in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. 21st January 1964

The Village, Brill, Aylesbury, Thame, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: 1900s

Polruan, Cornwall, May 1949
View of the Cornish fishing village Polruan, May 1949. The Polruan-Fowey ferry landing can be seen in the image and a number of small fishing boats are moored up in the Fowey Estuary

Village Cross - The Borough - Downton nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire. Date: circa 1903

Thatched cottages at Bolingey, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Thatched cottages at Bolingey. Two men, a little girl and a dog stand by the doorway and a boy poses by the gate. Photographer: Samuel John Govier

Seasonal weather - Rainbow over All Saints Church, Blackheath, London, UK
Seasonal weather - A rainbow appears over All Saints Church in Blackheath in London as the sun breaks through the rainclouds

Halwill Barton, Lesnewth, Cornwall. 1961
A general view of the early 17th century Grade II listed house. The house name original spelling was Halwill, as is reflected on a granite stone at the entrance to the drive

The May-pole, 1866. Artist: Charles Cousen
The May-pole, 1866. 19th century imagining of Elizabethans celebrating May Day, an annual European tradition thought to have originated as a pagan fertility rite

Fore Street, Trevena, Tintagel. 6th June 1907
A view along Trevenas main street looking north west. A young boy stands talking to a lady in a doorway. Photographer: John Charles Burrow

Angwin Brothers butchers shop, Market Square, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. 1967
A view of the butchers shop in Market Square (or Commercial Square). The building was once the Capital and Counties Bank. Photographer: Charles Woolf

Victoria Terrace, Terras Road, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. Early 1900s
A photograph of " The Terrace s, St Stephens" taken on a sunny day. A horse and cart goes downhill away from St Stephen passing a boy standing by a garden gate

The Thunderbolt thunders through Titfield
in a scene from the classic Ealing Comedy

The Wheel Inn and Riverside Cottages, Tresillian, Cornwall. Around 1904
A lady is standing by the low wall at the cottages, near to a stone pile. A second lady is walking by the 14th century thatched Inn. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

Playing the Rabana drum - Sinhalese - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Playing the Rabana drum - Sinhalese people - Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Maha (big) Rabana or Banku (bench) Rabana, played by two or more people at a time is used at wedding festivals

Pancake Race / Olney
SHROVE TUESDAY The starter line for the Olney pancake race, 1951, which has been held in the village for over 500 years. Any Olney woman over 18 can compete. Date: 1951

The Village, Wedmore, Somerset
The Village, Wedmore, near Cheddar, Somerset, England. Date: 1910s

Jerusalem, Kidron Valley and Siloam
View of Jerusalem (left), the Kidron Valley and the village of Siloam (Silwan, right). Date: 1920s

Poster, Velke Karlovice, Raj Lyzaru
Czech poster, Velke Karlovice, Raj Lyzaru, by Ladislav Horak -- Great Karlovice (a village in Vsetin District, Zlin Region, Czech Republic), a paradise for skiers. Date: 1946

The Lawn At The University Of Virginia
Engraving shows the main lawn and quadrangle of the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, circa 1830s

North Queensferry with the beautiful Forth bridge
North Queensferry is a village in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge, and 10 miles (16.1 km) from Edinburgh

Traditional Dutch windmill near Msland, Holland, Netherlands

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