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Some Historical threes in England

... Peacocks of Bedfont, and represented the maidens as being turned into these yew-tree birds TURPIN'S RING AT HEMPSTEAD A remarkable group of trees at Hempstead where Turpin is said to have indulged in the pleasures of cock-fighting GILBERT WHITE'S ASPEN TREE ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 243 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

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... DR. EDMUND HART TURPIN, MUS.DOC. Seated at the organ in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Handel frequently played on this organ Copyright of The Taller ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 25 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RIPON PAGEANT: SCENES AT THE GREAT HISTORIC FESTIVAL

... THE RIPON PAGEANT: SCENES AT THE GREAT HISTORIC FESTIVAL THE PROCESSION OF THE OLDEST INHABITANTS DICK TURPIN ON BLACK BESS KING CHARLES I. ON HIS WAY TO EXECUTION A SCENE FROM MERRIE ENGLAND Kip°n last week held its third decennial historic festival ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1906
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 142 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

MERRIE ENGLAND

... for its fares was only 6 13s. 4x1. There are many traditions con nected with the Seven Stars, One of them being that Dick Turpin and Guy Fawkes visited the place. At any rate Harrison Ainsworth incor porated this legend into his story about Guy Fawkes ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

MODERN HIGHWAYMEN--TERRORS OF THE TOWN

... daylight did not vanish with Dick Turpin, for the two recent exploits in St. Peters burg and Köpenick show the vitality of his art. The laughter-compelling captain who raided Köpenick has not even the picturesqueness of Dick Turpin. He is a common cobbler, Friedrich ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1906
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1156 | Page: 4 | 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 NORTH COUNTRY POINT-TO-POINT

... as we stroll back to the water-jump. After running through the list we both agree that the horse that ought to win is Dick Turpin. It is such a nice name, says Three. If I went in for betting I should put all my money on him. We have some time to wait ...

GOOD NEWS FOR EVERY SKIN SUFFERER

... and glass of the most exquisite description, made by some of the foremost houses in France, greet one everywhere. M. Paul Turpin, who conceived the idea of this palatial emporium, has been engaged upon decorative work in this country for over fifteen ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1495 | Page: 61 | Tags: Photographs 

Who Wasn't in the Enclosure: Who's Who Outside the Enclosure

... concealment of food. President of the Budget Protest League The Rt. Hon. Walter Long, M.P., has led the attack on the Dick Turpin Budget with splen did vigour, and has just founded the Budget Protest League I Mr. Asquith Smiles What time the merry Suffragettes ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 754 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

ATHLETICS, &c

... personal compliment from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Mr. R. A. Roberts, the protean actor, makes a welcome reaopearance as Dick Turpin and a dozen other characters, in his lightning change sketch. These, with the merry Madcaps, Mr. Syd May in his lifelike ...

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