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THE BEE IN THE BONNET

... actually ate in what was once an upstairs stable but is now a most spick-and-span board room. George Du Cros, supported by Dick Turpin, presided at a happily informal lunch of many courses and the best specially imported from the far-away West into the wilds ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1913
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1591 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... recently I was staying in an inn which, according to the most amusing wife of Mine Host, was one of the favourite 'aunts of Dick Turpin, and I'll show you the secret trap-door in the cellar what there is to the 'ole 'e 'id in and that bed in your room is the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1928
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1662 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

MULTAN, THE RAIDER

... his man, and surrounded him. Then Multan, seeing the game was up, gave evidence of the character which had made him the Dick Turpin of the Frontier, the Beloved Budmash. He turned to the young men of his party. We are done, he told them. You are young ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1761 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

CONCERNING Q CARS

... wonderful means of carrying out spectacular coups. Pick up any newspaper, and you cannot fail to read of exploits which make Dick Turpin turn in his grave in envy. But it takes two to play that game, and the police have devised a number of interesting mystery ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1671 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

MICHAEL STRANGER GOES TO LONDON

... kings very seldom drifted as far as his sister's house. The lash of the whip danced in the air, they passed an inn where Dick Turpin used to sleep, and the stranger told him a story of Hounslow. In those days Kensington and Westminster were parted and there ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1929
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1651 | Page: 82 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: Royalty at the Aero Show

... the whole journey was done at top gear. The party included Messrs. H. and W. Du Cros, Charles Jarrott, D 'Arcy Baker, W. A. Turpin, Charles Pinnock, and Eustace Gray. Great interest was taken in the car all along the route. [Photograph by Campbell-Gray ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1623 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... and a revival of the final pageant in their hectic careers at Marble Arch. What an attraction that would be Why, to see Dick Turpin or Jack Sheppard scragged in their boots, even Socialistic London would turn out in its millions. And then the previous scenes ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1924
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1946 | Page: 62 | Tags: Photographs 

PETROL VAPOUR

... there's really no road in Great Britain that can quite compare with the Bath Road. It is true it has not been hallowed by Dick Turpin riding to York along it, but Beaux Nash and Brummel must have bounced over its pot-holes to good purpose, and that in itself ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1920
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1883 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

SPORTS & PASTIMES: LAWN TENNIS; England v. Holland

... Stewart. Seated Maj. Bampton, Col. Ballingal, Maj. C. Campbell, Gen. Gregory, H. Langhorne, Col. Field, Maj. Geary. D. A. Turpin. In front Capt. Bain, R. Johnstone, Capt. Law, Capt. Vachell, Maj. Sutherland, Capt. Bickford and Capt. C. Fraser \Nand Lal} ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1921
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1741 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs