Description: GATE HOUSE, HIGHGATE Middlesex Artist: J. HEnshall ____________ Engraver: T. Cox NOTE: THE RED LETTERING ON THE PRINT IS A WATERMARK I ADDED DIGITALLY AND IS NOT ON THE ACTUAL PRINT! CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE 19th CENTURY EUROPE CITY AND LANDSCAPE VIEWS!! PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1851; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, actual scene or image size is 3 3/4 by 6 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine, no foxing stains or tears, as shown in this detailed picture of the print. Printed on thick rag stock paper. Blank on the reverse side. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receive priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. We take a variety of payment options. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! PRINT DESCRIPTION : Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate is divided between three London boroughs: Haringey in the north, Camden in the south and west, and Islington in the south and east. The postal district for Highgate is N6. It is one of the more expensive suburbs to live in and has an active conservation society, The Highgate Society, to protect its character. Hampstead Lane and Highgate Hill contain the red brick Victorian buildings of Highgate School and its adjacent Chapel of St Michael. The school has played a paramount role in the life of the village and has existed on its site since its founding was permitted by letters from Queen Elizabeth I in 1565. Highgate is noteworthy for its Cemetery and Georgian architecture. It is also the location of Berthold Lubetkin's two Highpoint apartment buildings. Historically it adjoined the Bishop of London's hunting estate. The Bishop kept a toll-house where one of the main northward roads out of London entered his land. A number of pubs sprang up along the route, one of which, the Gatehouse, commemorates the toll-house. In later centuries Highgate was associated with the highwayman Dick Turpin. Subsequently, Highgate was part of the Municipal Borough of Hornsey and the seat of that borough's governing body for many years. Highgate Hill, the steep street linking Archway and Highgate village, was the route of the first cable car to be built in Europe. It operated between 1884 and 1909. The reader need hardly be reminded that the village of Highgate takes its name from the position of this Gateway, or Gate House, which in all probability was the first building erected here, and also was in former times a prominent object. One person, in spite of common sense and the statement of Camden, who says that " Highgate is so called of the high road or toll-gate on it erected by the Bishops of London three hundred years ago [circa 1280], before which the high road went through Hornsey, Colney Hatch, and Friern Burnet to Whetstone," has referred the derivation of Highgate. Although the gate or archway which extended across the road to the chapel has been pulled down and the passage widened, the Gate House is still standing, and is occupied as a tavern, the occupier being also farmer or lessee of the ancient toll which is still collected here for the Bishop of London. From the information afforded me by Mr. Atkins, the bishop's lessee, I obtained the following particulars; viz., The toll taken is, for a cart or van, two-pence ; for every drove of entire beasts,' one penny ; for every drove of other beasts, two-pence; for a pack-horse one penny; for a led horse, one penny. Double toll is taken by custom on the three days of Barnet Fair, which is held on the same days as old Bartholomew Fair. The tenants and dwellers of Finchley, Colney, Hornsey, and Friern Barnet (for High Barnet is liable) are exempt from the payment of this toll, as holding mediately or immediately of the bishop. I inquired of Mr. Atkins whether the tenants of the dean and chapter of St. Paul, as of their prebends of Iseldon and Newington, were accustomed to pay toll, or whether they claimed exemption; but I was informed that he had heard of such claim of exemption, but that it had not been allowed. The Gate-House Tavern is one of the best, if not the best house of entertainment in Highgate. Over the door of the house, which opens upon the highway, there used formerly to be erected a pair of bullock's horns. This sign was, sans doubt, a symbol of authority used in collecting the tolls for the droves of horned cattle, and had its origin in the parkkeeper's or forester's staff of office, which was a pair of huge antlers mounted on a pole of about five feet long; and such a pair of antlers now grace the hall or bar of the Gate House Inn, where they hang upon a peg fancifully designed to represent a minor pair of antlers. A GREAT 1800s VIEW OF LONDON CITY STREET SCENES, BUILDINGS AND ARCHITECTURE! Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
Price: 6.99 USD
Location: New Providence, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-01-22T19:26:59.000Z
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