These include psychometry ( establishing the history of an object ), slate writing ( common in Victorian times ), extras appearing in photographs ( seemingly no more ; possibly since the advent of compound camera lenses using plastic as well as quartz-glass ) and a long list of other curiosities.

Father Christmas is said to wear ( these days ) a bright red suit, but in Victorian and Tudor times he wore a bright green suit.

In Victorian times and later the town has spread westwards and northwards, and now forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west.

" The origins of Hangman are obscure, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times ," says Tony Augarde, author of " The Oxford Guide to Word Games " ( Oxford University Press ).

Guilds in the Middle Ages served a similar purpose, as did friendly societies during Victorian times.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

While modern identification of mushrooms is quickly becoming molecular, the standard methods for identification are still used by most and have developed into a fine art harking back to medieval times and the Victorian era, combined with microscopic examination.

The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a " Professor " or " Punchman ," and assisted sometimes by a " Bottler ", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money (" the bottle ").

In Victorian times the drum and pan pipes were the instruments of choice.

It was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times and improved over the next half century as a local shopping place for its neighbourhood and the affluent area to the north.

The term publican ( in historical Roman usage a public contractor or tax farmer ) has come into use since Victorian times to designate the pub landlord.

Pubs near London's Smithfield market, Billingsgate fish market and Covent Garden fruit and flower market could stay open 24 hours a day since Victorian times to provide a service to the shift working employees of the markets.

In Victorian times earnestness was considered to be the over-riding societal value, originating in religious attempts to reform the lower classes, it spread to the upper ones too throughout the century.

In Victorian times people often booked formal funeral photographers when they could afford it.

In Victorian times in England it became popular for museums to be open on a Sunday afternoon ( the only such facility allowed to do so ) to enable the opportunity for " self-improvement " of the other-working-classes.

Originally a form of vermin control to protect livestock, fox hunting became a popular social activity for newly wealthy upper classes in Victorian times, and a traditional rural activity for riders and foot followers alike.

They often transport viewers to other worlds or eras: ancient times, biblical times, the Middle Ages, the Victorian era, or turn-of-the-century America.

Tourism in Bermuda first developed in Victorian times, catering to a wealthy elite seeking to escape North American winters.

It survived a demolition attempt for a road-widening scheme in Victorian times.

A " handkerchief " or " hanky " primarily refers to a napkin made of cloth, used to dab away perspiration, clear the nostrils, or, in Victorian times, as a means of flirtation.

In Victorian times this area was known as ' Ketts Meadow '.

In late Victorian times the subject matter of the play was deemed controversial, and there was an outcry when Adelaide Neilson appeared as Isabella in the 1870s.

Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Each club was required to pay a licence fee which allowed the Victorian based clubs to survive.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.

The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

Victorian house in AlamedaDue to its proximity to the Bay, wind surfers and kite surfers can often be seen at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.

Given the bias of the Victorian age, female students were denied direct study in anatomy and could not attend drawing classes with live models ( who were often prostitutes ) until a decade later.

The strong Victorian colours disappeared, though, and new publications called for white or pale threads, except for fancy purses, which were often crocheted of brightly colored silk and elaborately beaded.

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

Styles of dress within the subculture range from deathrock, punk and Victorian style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with dark attire, makeup and hair.

Styles are often borrowed from the Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and often express pagan, occult or other religious imagery such as pentacles or medieval crosses.

The often sympathetic investigations, with their immediacy and unswerving eye for detail, offered unprecedented insights into the condition of the Victorian poor.

Mayhew also often appears as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London, played by Timothy West in the documentary London ( 2004 ) and by David Haig in the Afternoon Play A Chaos of Wealth and Want ( 2010 ).

A typical Victorian koala ( formerly P. cinereus victor ) has longer, thicker fur ; is a darker, softer grey, often with chocolate-brown highlights on the back and forearms ; and has a more prominently light-coloured ventral side and fluffy white ear tufts.

This includes Victorian, which often negatively suggests sexual repression and class conflict.

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

Victorian and Edwardian tablespoons used in the UK are often 25 ml or sometimes larger.

Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one-off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties ; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the South of England ; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings.

People often dress up for the occasion in Victorian attire, as seen in this photo.

At the same time that he made these initial ventures into outdoor themes, Eakins produced a series of domestic Victorian interiors, often with his father, his sisters or friends as the subjects.

Arthur in the story is often seen as an embodiment of Victorian ideals ; he is said to be " ideal manhood closed in real man " and the " stainless gentleman.