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River above Eyjafjörður. uploaded April 2010
Eyjafjallajökull from Þórsmörk. Panoramic [view] A. uploaded April 2010
Reykjavík. National celebration, 1898. uploaded April 2010
Austurhlíð under Bjarnarfell. uploaded April 2010
Reykjavík.--Vesturgata. uploaded April 2010
Old chair from Rauðisandur. Nat[ional] Museum, Reykjavík. uploaded April 2010
Stórólfshvoll Church. - Bowl, etc. uploaded April 2010
Creamery (Rjómabú) at Seljaland (Eyjafjöll). uploaded April 2010
Þingvellir.--Nikulásargjá. uploaded April 2010
Svínafell. Flosi's home. uploaded April 2010
Geysir from Tungufljót. uploaded April 2010
Coast from Búðir, and Tröllkarl. uploaded April 2010
Hveravellir. Eyvindarhver. uploaded April 2010
Hvítá above Kópsvatn ferry. uploaded April 2010
Vopnafjörður. uploaded April 2010

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Nineteenth-century House

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Hans-Bernd Abel said:
No. 33 Banbury Road, seen from east. Built in 1865-67, architect: Charles Edward Bruton. Named "Springfield". (At that time the address was 16 St Giles’s Road). The house was first leased by the Revd J. V. Durell for his widowed mother and his unmarried siblings. Members of the Durell family lived there until 1924. In 1928 Springfield was leased by nuns of the Anglican Community of St. Mary's who established a hostel there for students of the Society of Oxford Home-Students (after 1942 St. Anne's Society). Later, accommodation space was further extended by aquiring adjacent Nos. 31 (The Firs, also imaged here in this album) and 35 (todays Eleanor Plumer House). Together with other villas on Bevington Road, the three linked houses of Springfield St. Mary contributed to the development of what later became the site of St. Anne's College. After St. Anne's received full College status in 1959, they developed ambitious plans to meet accomodation requirements due to increasing student numbers. No. 33 Banbury Road was the first which had to make way for a modern, four storey student residence, Wolfson Building, and was demolished in 1963. Besides the Gardener who is proudly presenting his lawn roller here, another member of the household staff, probably the Butler or Footman can be seen in this photograph watching the scenery from the dining room window (1st floor right). Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - St. Sepulchres Cemetery web site, Oxford (The following material found at St. Anne's web site): - The Ship 2020-2021 - Amy Langer (ed.): St. Anne's College Alumnae Personal Histories - Dr. David Smith: St. Anne's College 1952-2012 - Bevington Road: A History

Nineteenth-century English House

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Hans-Bernd Abel said:
No. 115 Woodstock Road, North Oxford, seen from the east. Built in 1869, architect unknown. Named "Burnham House". Among the residents of No. 115 were Robert Buckell, Mayor of Oxford 1885-1918, and Percy Elford, Fellow of St. John's College and Chief Education Officer. Together with no. 117 (partially visible on the right), the house became the main building of St Faith's school in 1919 for more than fourty years. Demolished ca. 1969 to make way for the "Butler Close" apartment buildings. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Historic England Archive, Red Box Collection "Oxford, Oxon" - A. Spokes Symmonds: The Changing Faces of North Oxford, Book II View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.