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Andersen / Birthplace
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Danish writers birthplace at Odense, Denmark

Airy / Sambourne / Punch
SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY Astronomer Royal 1835-1881, depicted with the red time ball of the Greenwich Observatory

Reynolds / Plympton Devon
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS House at Plympton, Devon, where the English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy was born

Shelley / Birthplace
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY English poets birthplace at Field Place

Shakespeare / New Place
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, from a drawing found in 1786

Nelson / Birthplace / Iln
HORATIO LORD NELSON English naval officers birthplace at Burnham Thorpe Parsonage, Norfolk

Justus Liebig / 6 of 6
JUSTUS VON LIEBIG German scientist and his factories at Fray-Bentos, Uruguay

John Knox / High St Edin
JOHN KNOX Home of the Scottish Protestant preacher in the High Street, Edinburgh

Village Children & Hoop
Five children with a toy hoop standing at the top of a street looking down on Seatoller, Cumberland. The chimneys are smoking in the pretty cottages

Shipyards on Clyde
Shipyards and shipping on the Clyde

Sheffield / Harpers 1884
Sheffield, Yorkshire: viewed from the high level at Victoria Station

Manchester / View 1845
Manchester: a general view

Chimneysweep (Petherick)
London characters: the CHIMNEY SWEEP walks the streets with his brushes, offering his services - for every home is heated with coal fires which clog the chimneys with soot

Bradford / Yorkshire / 1882
Bradford, Yorkshire: a church and smoking chimneys

Germany / Essen / Krupp 1900
Essen: Krupps industrial works, on the Ruhr

Grosvenor Square 1850S
A relatively active view of Grosvenor Square with carriages rushing to new destinations and stopping to pick up important passengers

Thomas Carlyle / Cheyne Rw
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish writers home in Cheyne Row, Chelsea

English Chimneysweeps
A London chimneysweep offers his services - or rather, those of his two lads who will go down the chimneys getting rid of the accumulated soot which they cart away in sacks

Ornamental Chimneys 1850
A selection of towers and chimneys with unusual architectural details

Raleigh / Youghal / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH His home at Youghal, Ireland

England / Derby
The river from Derwent Bridge, with factory chimneys outnumbering the church tower and spire

Jet Black Chimney Sweep
A young male chimney sweep is jet black after a day cleaning chimneys

Glasgow / Smoke C1880
View of Glasgow showing the profusion of smoke-emitting factory chimneys in the late 19th century

Industrial Landscape
Ironworks at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire

Industry / Factories
Factory chimneys outnumber church spires on the skyline at Preston, Lancashire (England)

Copper works in Cornwall, with smoking chimneys
Copper works in Cornwall, with many smoking chimneys

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