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HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... The pistol here shown, which is making nightly appearance as a property in Mr. Fred Ginnett's equestrian spectacle, Dick Turpin's Ride to York or, The Death of Bcnnie Black Bess, is said to have been the actual property of the famous highwayman. It ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1247 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

... local legends, tavern-bills, Washington Irving, Walter Scott, poets, novelists, and historians. Of course, he meets with Dick Turpin, who was but a common thief- he never rode to York and with a more enterprising Knight of the Road in a certain Nevison, who ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 537 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A PILGRIMAGE TO WESSEX: THOMAS HARDY'S COUNTRY

... fair, so minutely described in Far From the Madding Crowd, where Bathsheba found Sergeant Troy disporting himself as Dick Turpin in the circus-tent. And just at the foot of Greenliill is the half-dead townlet of Kings Bere, the home of the D'Urbervilles ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... occasionally their necks they are those scientific personages who use the car much as the highwayman of old used his horse. Dick Turpin no longer holds sway; Petrol Pete and Carburettor Charles are in the ascendant, and the motor-car is said to enaoie tnem ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4022 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... always been devoted to the stage, and, deciding to defy parental authority, she made her debut when only sixteen in Dandy Dick Turpin during a stock season at the Grand. After this, she spent two years at the Gaietj' Theatre, while there pursuing her studies ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8555 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs