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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 

CHILDREN'S COURTS

... Jack and Harry, Polly and Eliza. The precocious gutter urchin may think it a jolly lark a performance akin to those of I)ick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, or Claude Duval. The timid one is scared out of its wits. But both hear too much, see too much, are seen to ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1905
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1502 | Page: 12 | 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