Images Dated 2018 October

Shrewsbury Castle, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1894. Creator: Unknown

Shrewsbury Castle, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1894. View of the castle with the Clement memorial obelisk, erected in 1873, to the memory of surgeon and politician William James Clement. The Norman castle was founded by Roger de Montgomery in c1070. Much of it was demolished during the rebuilding and strengthening of the castle by Edward I in c1300, when an outer bailey was also added. It was never used as a fortress after this date, and over the centuries was allowed to fall into disrepair. Elizabeth I gave the castle to the bailiffs and burgesses of Shrewsbury in 1586, and little was done to the building until the Civil War, when further alterations were made. It was captured by the Parliamentarians in 1645, and it was not until 1660, when Charles II was restored to the throne, that it was returned to the ownership of the crown. From Beautiful Britain; views of our stately homes. [The Werner Company of Chicago, 1894]

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St Katherine's Dock, 2011. Creator: Ethel Davies

St Katharine's Dock, a former commercial dock on the north bank of the River Thames close to Tower Bridge, now a marina, leisure and shopping complex, with the Dickens Inn behind, a converted 18th century warehouse now a pub, St Katharine's Dock, London, E1, England

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'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). Creator: Unknown

'Motherless', c1883, (c1902). After a painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Victorian graveyard scene: a recently widowed father tends his dead wife's grave while tenderly holding their child on his knee. Unusually for the time, this work depicts a working-class man as a nurturing parent. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]

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