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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 

Rapier on Racing

... The other sticks to the low down game. He never wins when other horses are watching. BOB beat another three-year-old m Dick Turpin, who only ran once as a two-year-old and was given plenty of time this year. Perhaps that is why he is a useful horse to-day ...

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 

Rahier on Racing

... Rackety Lassie and Pahokee. It would depend a lot on who rides them. Possibly this Cup may be won by Gordon Richards on Dick Turpin. Tipping Extra ordinary at Hong Kong. A remarkable instance of giving successful tips reaches us from Hong Kong. Mr. S. Haroon ...