Folklorists such as Gwenith Gwynn, interviewing people in the early twentieth century, were unwittingly discovering folk memories of a Victorian misunderstanding rather than an actual, earlier folk practice.

* 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.

Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

The 1897 novel Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

Damage to housing stock in Wimbledon and other parts of London during the Second World War led to the final major building phase when many of the earlier Victorian houses built with large grounds in Wimbledon Park were sub-divided into apartments or demolished and replaced with apartment blocks.

The change or reversal in taste from the Victorian eclectic styles corresponded with the historical revivals of the period, most prominently earlier Georgian and Neoclassical styles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

There are several Victorian buildings, but many structures that appear to be of late 19th or 20th Century origin are of a much earlier period, their true identities obscured by alterations applied over the decades.

Amongst Baily's many busts and statues of scientific, religious and literary figures ( mostly from the Victorian period but some from earlier periods ) are the following:

Lawes, a noted Victorian era entrepreneur and scientist, had founded one of the first artificial fertilizer manufacturing factories one year earlier in 1842.

The negative connotations of the straitjacket as an instrument of torture come from the earlier Victorian era of medicine.

The attempts made to preserve the earlier building, championed by the later Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, led to the formation of The Victorian Society and heralded in the modern conservation movement.

The demolished buildings include Smithfield House ( an unlisted early 20th century Hennebique concrete building ), the Edmund Martin Ltd. shop ( an earlier building with alterations dating to the 1930s ) and two Victorian warehouses behind them.

The passing of the Act of Victorian Parliament to establish La Trobe University followed earlier University Acts to establish the University of Melbourne ( 1853 ) and Monash University ( 1958 ).

Later, after silent films were superseded by the ' talkies ', stage actor Tod Slaughter, at the age of 50, transferred to the screen the Victorian melodramas in which he had played villain in his earlier theatrical career.

Many of the new buildings show the influence of the Romanesque Revival architectural mode, although influence of earlier Victorian modes is also widespread.

Similarly, Sarah Gilbert sees the theme of feminine sexuality and authority realised in Ayesha as critical to the novel's success: " Unlike the women earlier Victorian writers had idealised or excoriated, She was neither an angel nor a monster.

The Monk mysteries are set earlier in the Victorian era ( 1850s-1860s ) than the Pitt books ( 1880s-1890s ).

An important and entertaining conspectus and evaluation of 19th century ( pre-1885 ) and earlier underground erotica, from the author's own private archive, is provided by Victorian writer Henry Spencer Ashbee in his bibliographical trilogy Index Librorum Prohibitorum ( 1877 ), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum ( 1879 ) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum ( 1885 ).

The Victorian Certificate of Education is generally taught in Year 11 and 12 of secondary college in Victoria, however some students commence their VCE studies in Year 10 or earlier if the school allows it.

The team enjoyed success under his tutelage, but he died after being punched by a hotel bouncer outside a pub where he had been drinking with Victorian players following their victory in a match earlier in the day.

Just as the flapper rejected the long hair popular in earlier years, she also discarded Victorian fashions, especially the corset, which accentuated women's curves.

' Coburra ' was built in 1905 but was more typical of the earlier Victorian era.

The interiors of the chain's earlier restaurants are decorated with antiques circa 1900, providing a theme that is reminiscent of Victorian England as well as early America.

It opened during the Victorian era, in 1885, replacing earlier stations situated a little further west.

The word has now gone out of fashion, but it was used during the Victorian era and earlier as an antonym to the performing art and the fine art.

Unable to use any of the dilapidated buildings remaining on the island from previous occupants, they constructed a crude shelter from cement bags and tin salvaged from Quonset huts built by the American military twenty years earlier.

Both had been converted from earlier private buildings.

The Persians had inherited a rich architectural legacy from the earlier Persian dynasties, and they started incorporating elements from earlier Parthian and Sassanid palace-designs into their mosques, influenced by buildings such as the Palace of Ardashir and the Sarvestan Palace.

Building and enlarging the islands, along with the new Concorde Bridge built to connect them with the site-specific mass transit system known as the Montreal Expo Express, plus a boat pier, cost more than the Saint Lawrence Seaway project did only five years earlier: this was even before any buildings or infrastructure were constructed.

He eventually rejected much of the metallic appearance of earlier International Style buildings, and began designing spectacular, crystalline structures uniformly sheathed in glass.

New buildings were constructed on top of the remains of the earlier periods ; thus, there is a deep stratigraphy from prehistoric times to the early Hittite period.

This was the second major setback the outpost had suffered, and followed severe storms and flooding that had damaged Mission buildings and ruined crops earlier in the year.

Given that the southern part of the Upper Ward ( where Crown Square is now sited ) was not suited to being built upon until the construction of the vaults in the 15th century, it seems probable that any earlier buildings would have been located towards the northern part of the rock ; that is around the area where St. Margaret's Chapel stands.

The church has a fine cloister of the 12th century, constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings.

The massive walls surrounding the late Roman city, enclosing 40 hectares, were built in part re-using stone from earlier public buildings.

Preserved timber from earlier demolished buildings in Uxbridge were used in the construction of a new building beside the former offices of Fassnidge, built to resemble a much older structure.

However, Hatshepsut, who completed an enormous number of temples and public buildings, had completed the work seventy-five years earlier.

Continuing the style of the earlier buildings, various designers were responsible for the decoration, the terracotta embellishments were again the work of Godfrey Sykes, although sgraffito was used to decorate the east side of the building designed by F. W. Moody, a final embellishment were the wrought iron gates made as late as 1885 designed by Starkie Gardner, these lead to a passage through the building.

Lauenburg is a notable old town with a number of historic buildings from the 17th century and earlier.

The abbey was founded in 1147 by Robert fitzHarold of Ewyas, the Lord of Ewyas Harold, possibly on the site of earlier wooden monastic buildings of which no traces remain.

These buildings joined the Village Hall and the Grand Cane Methodist Church that had obtained earlier listings.

The Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, including the Village Hall ( Bank of Grand Cane ) which gained National Register status earlier in 1988. The Historic District Status is important, as it recognizes the fact that the exterior of the buildings in this short block a half have remained much the same as when they were built around the turn-of-the-century.

Many older buildings built in the 1950s and earlier have been demolished to make place for modern architecture.

A brick courthouse built in 1850 at a cost of $ 3, 000 replaced the earlier log structure and over the next decade numerous residential and commercial buildings were constructed in and around the courthouse square.

* Christian Avenue School-Original buildings dating back from earlier part of the century.

On either side of this are slightly earlier buildings, the southern of which is the Principal's Lodgings, and the northern mostly houses the College's offices.

The architecture of the depot, built in 1913 with separate waiting rooms and toilets for white passengers and black passengers, pays homage to an earlier era in which racial inequality and lack of civil rights was institutionalized into the design of public buildings.

The village core retains only a few shops and professional offices, but still holds the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and Roaring Spring Water Bottling Company, all of the historic church buildings, the public library ( formerly the Eldon Inn ), the borough building, the post office ( earlier moved from farther up East Main St .).