What can you see outside your window?

Do you have a garden, a balcony, or a backyard?

Can you see trees or other houses?

Is it noisy or quiet?

What can you hear and smell from your window?

People around the world have lots of different views from their homes.

Discuss:

What can you see in these photographs?

Are they busy or quiet places?

Which one would you choose to live in? Why?

How would you feel being inside one of those images?

Painting of a stone path winding through a garden of small rocks and multi-coloured flowers towards a slate roofed cottage.

Cottage and garden in Buxton, Derbyshire. England, 1904. Catalogue ref: COPY 1/218.261

Busy Street scene features cycle rickshaws and bicycles, with washing hung out to dry from the apartments above the shops.

Scene in Singapore’s Chinatown, 1944-1960. Catalogue ref: INF 10/324.4

Photograph of houses by a small port. Several boats are cruising in the water. Text printed on the photograph reads "Susan's Bay. Big Wharf. Freetown, Sierra Leone." Handwritten text underneath says "Direct landing from ship, river canoe & schooner traffic".

Susan’s bay, Big Wharf, Sierra Leone, 1908-1912. Catalogue reference: CO 1069/41

Watercolour painting of a town in North Wales in the nineteen-fifties. Three quaint buildings are next to a church. A car is parked next to the church and two people lean against it, looking at the church.

Poster: Wherever You Go Post Office, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, by Hugh Speers. 1959. Catalogue reference: NSC 62/18

Black and white photograph of a rainy street. People and camels walk along it. A man carrying an umbrella walks in the foreground.

Photograph by Cecil Beaton. Shopping street in Varanasi, India, in a downpour of rain, showing camels. 1944. Catalogue reference: INF 14/434

Illustrated harbour scene featuring a bay of coloured houses, a busy food market and fishing boats arriving to offload their catch.

Fishing Port scene by artist Grace Golden. United Kingdom, 1939-1946. Catalogue ref: INF 3/1739

Black and white photograph of a street lined by palm trees with a large pagoda in the background. Two people talk in the foreground, one standing and one sitting on the sidewalk.

Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar), 1907. Catalogue reference: COPY 1/514/558 (h)

Monochrome photo of view from hill overlooking a Cypriot village with flat roofed houses, a church and the rolling hills beyond.

Pano Lefkara, the village of lace. Cyprus. Catalogue ref: INF 10/110/03

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