Children on Marken Island, Netherlands seas York Minster The South Gate

York Minster The South Gate

A partial inscription is visible in the upper left of the photograph 'Carusso' and '138' in pencil

Suggs from the group Madness at the Birmingham Odeon

Dickensian Inns

A bearded Hindu or Muslim holy man sits playing a drum by a small fire

Children on Marken Island, Netherlands seas York Minster The South GateChildren on Marken Island, Netherlands, 1898. The former island of Marken is a peninsula, now connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. It is well known for its characteristic wooden houses. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).