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... interesting about Turpin is that when he came to what Moll Flanders calls the steps and the string (1739), he chatted with the hangman for a full half-hour before being swung off topic unknown, but showing, whatever it was, that Mr. Turpin was less dumb than ...
... A Game of Chess by A. L. Grace. Preferential Treatment' The Girl Pat by Norman Wilkinson, R.I. fry Frank R. Grey. Dick Turpin on Gomersby Moor A Dickens of a Party by Will Owen. by Lionel Edwards, R.I. A Franklin --fromSir Thomas Overbuy* s Gossip ...
... j synonym for highway robbery. And though their exploits have not been vested with the romance of a Claude Duval or a Dick Turpin, their methods were the same. These men, described generally as bushrangers a term in earlier years applied to escaped convicts ...
... by Dudley Tennanl. tu c i d t nT'ii n Preferential Treatment The Girl fat by Norman Wilkinson, R.I. by Frank R Grey Dick Turpin on Gomersby Moor A Dickens of a Party by Will Owen. by Lionel Edwards R.I. A Franklin --from Sir Thomas Overbury's Gossip ...
... III II London, E.C.3. III JMIaI^C 7 HE SPANIARDS HA MPS TEAR achieved fame as a highwayman's inn, being th ...
... the design being formed in coloured pebbles. I j| According to tradition, the Inn was a hiding place of the notorious Dick Turpin. f The Spaniards was in those days a chosen resort of the quality, being r. within comfortable driving distance of town ...
... country, Dick Turpin used to stay at the Crooked Billet Inn at Iver Heath, near Windsor, which is shortly to be closed, though not (oddly enough) destroyed. The inn is so old that some of its window-panes are of horn. Over and above the Turpin business, there ...
... so we flung a whole lot of promiscuous In Turpin s T acks things into the back of the self propelled vehicle, and took the road to the north, fol lowing the route that Harrison Ainsworth laid down for Dick Turpin. We stopped for a few minutes at Welwyn ...
... esque in the extreme. A scraggy remnant of pines brings to mind the days en le Heath was dangerous to travellers with Dick Turpin in the offing. Tennyson, it may be remembered, foretold the age of air travel in Locksley Hall For I dipped into the future ...
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... highways as they become more and more suitable for motor traffic? I am afraid he will. I should be very sorry for the modern Dick Turpin who tried to ride to York along the Great North Road. 1 foresee the da}' when police will be posted along our roads urging ...
... The Spaniards Hampstead g I fagES* tc?- l l How Kenwood was Saved in 1 780. jjjjj TRADITION has it that many a night Dick Turpin found welcome shelter and refreshment at The Spaniards. The inn is built on the jg| site of an ancient toll-gate on Hampstead ...