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OUR BOOKSHELF: SOME DISTINGUISHED VICTIMS OF THE SCAFFOLD

... OUR BOOKSHELF SOME DISTINGUISHED VICTIMS OF THE SCAFFOLD At first sight one may suspect Mr. Horace Bleackley of possessing that morbid cast of mind which revels in the gruesome details of crime and the punishment of crime. The title of his book is certainly ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1905
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1365 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

Building the Battle-of-Nations Memorial in Leipzig

... those of the allies, commanded by Prince Schwarzenberg and Marshal Blucher, almost 300,000. About 30,000 of the French were killed and wounded the allies lost about 52,000 men. The victory of the latter was complete. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE MONUMENT n 1 DRAW ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

ENGLANDS'S THREATENED HERITAGE: The Fate of the Lulworth Area as an Artillery Range: Repairing Lewes Castle and ..

... Battle Range, Keep Out, and Danger There are Bombs and Unpxploded Shells Inside They Can Kill You REPAIRS TO THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY TOWER OF LEWES CASTLE Scaffolding surrounding the fortress which is being renovated at a cost of about £5,000 by the J A ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 574 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

European Survey

... line had collapsed with dramatic suddenness and buried a gang of seventeen workmen beneath 60 ft. of earth, scaffolding, and masonry, killing thirteen and injuring the others with varying degrees of severity. Right-- The smouldering ruins of one of the ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

IN LONDON TOWN

... built in 1740 when Marylebone was a mere village A FAMOUS LONDON CHURCH IN SPLINTS: Nearly four miles of tubular- steel scaffolding now cloak the steeple of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, Lower Thames Street, the stonework of which is being checked for safety ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 431 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

HEADLINED HAPPENINGS

... York-Lowestoft express were derailed on the L.N.E.R. near Sleaford, Lines, four platelayers, who were taking their lunch, were killed in a hut, the remains of which appear in the angle between the coaches. The train was proceeding on the curved lines in the ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 424 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

ROME and the VATICAN: AT THE START OF HOLY YEAR

... invasion of Rome is expected to start in April, and it is hoped that by then many of the buildings still surrounded by scaffolding will be ready for occupation. Each pilgrim will receive on arrival a package containing a prayer-book, an identification ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

In Town and Out: Political Entertaining

... paying 10 francs to stand on a soap box under neath the scaffold. Those who hate her and condemn capital punishment altogether shriek in the newspapers and elsewhere that it would be more humane to kill the criminal by kindness. Whatever may be said in j ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1909
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs