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CURRENT EVE ...NTS IN PICTURES

... there is heavy rain soon, the position is likely to become serious DEMOLISHING AN ANCIENT HAMPSTEAD LANDMARK: The old Dick Turpin house and stables near the Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. Part of the structure narrowed the roadway, and it was thought ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 573 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... road- hog is four times as dangerous as a scatter-gun. As sure as fate the House will repent its easy going generosity to tne Turpins of the Road this side of September. Mr. Morrison is receiving too little help in his efforts towards sanity with safety. Charing ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2267 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE £s.d. OF RACING

... flat racing season with a series of brilliant successes. He won the valuable Chester Cup last week on Mr. R. F. Watson's Dick Turpin LORD DERBY: A name synonymous with racing and its i* npntest ni-hp THE EARL OF LONSDALE, owner of the flying Myrobeila LION ...

Published: Saturday 13 May 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2279 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... in my grandfather's country house at Wimbledon, where I was born, and it served me for the coach which Robin Hood and Dick Turpin repeatedly held up. I doubt not it was the very pram in which my father visited the Exhibition of 1851. A Bit of Old London ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2421 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

A London New sletter: THE ASSASSIN

... scandal of road lawlessness to continue unchecked a lawlessness which is bring ing back, in magnified form, the great days of Turpin and Duval, and has turned our roads into death traps for children and unwary citizens. Banditry in broad daylight on populous ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2744 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

COPING WITH THE CORPORATION TRAFFIC PROBLEM: How the Police and the L.P.T.B. Are Tackling Their Formidable Task

... particularly as a haunt of highwaymen, and the thatched stable across the yard is supposed to have been occupied by Dick Turpin's famous Black Bess. In the big room upstairs Courts were held until about a century ago, and, as might be expected, Queen ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2543 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs