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... and most entertaining book on his experiences. Mr. Thomson was, soon after his return, appointed Deputy-Governor of Dartmoor Prison, and in 1897 he was promoted to the Governorship of Northampton Prison. He was sent recently by the Government to the ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1273 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: The Merry Midinette

... 1, you have no cause for complaint. Missing the Mist Melodrama is being robbed of its high lights, and the closing of Dartmoor Prison will worry the authors more than a bit. Where can he send the young squire who has been falsely accused of the murder ...

Published: Wednesday 07 December 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1405 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Automobile Topics: The Gordon Bennett Race

... Weilbourf various trials of late, and are highly spoken of, by, amongst others, the Hon. Robert Lygon and the Governor of Dartmoor Prison. I have personally been enabled to note the behaviour of these ears on the road under varying condi tions, and at two ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1361 | Page: 54 | Tags: Photographs 

This ENGLAND

... dressed by British designers, adorns the circle on the cover of this issue of ThE Graphic. J. B. P. LOOKING DOWN ON DARTMOOR PRISON An aerial view of the prison, taken while the central block was blazing, showing how the buildings are arranged. The key ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1932
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1531 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON STAGE AND TALKIES: WITH A COMPARISON FROM LET US BE GAY; The Devil's Holiday is not the Greatest Drama ..

... episode in the British film Escape, (shown this week before a distinguished London audience) at the main gateway of Dartmoor Prison, wjj-h the escape bell above the first time a Government gaol has been filmed. The leaders in the gang of convicts are ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1654 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Taxi Sir?

... shouted, we'll have to stay here awhile I DID other jobs for the same group of newspapers. Other more successful jobs. The Dartmoor Prison riot photo graphs, for instance, when we got a twelve-hour scoop. As in everything, luck played its part in that, too ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3394 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON STAGE AND TALKIES: WITH A COMPARISON FROM LET US BE GAY; The Devil's Holiday is not the Greatest Drama ..

... episode in the British film Escape, (shown this week before a distinguished London audience) at the main gateway of Dartmoor Prison, wjj-h the escape bell above the first time a Government gaol has been filmed. The leaders in the gang of convicts are ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1654 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: A Delightful Novel

... the final escape to freedom reads not so much like a denial of the saint like routine as an escape from shall we say Dartmoor Prison. But, according to this book, the Convent of the Mystic Rose was indeed, as much a trial to the spirit as it was to the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2371 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

The Times we live in

... recently appointed committee of inquiry into street offences has come in for a good deal of criticism, recently described Dartmoor Prison as the cesspool of humanity and announced that it was to be closed down Drawn by Gal ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2555 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYS

... than one quarter the revival of this play is hailed as a shrewd and topical move in view of the riots some months ago in Dartmoor Prison. It has no more resemblance to those exciting episodes than Hamlet has to the Barney trial. Not only is the public's memory ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2772 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: A Book of Fascinating Human Oddities

... throughout the book this amused me because it is rather typical of English character. It concerns Mr. du Parcq's visit to Dartmoor Prison after the recent disturbances. Early in this visit he went to see a hardened old veteran, believing that he, if anyone ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2391 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

1932! A TREMEN DOUS YEAR!

... has increased enormously, while the number of convictions has decreased. And who is likely to forget the outbreak in Dartmoor Prison, which was marked by an almost ludicrous determination on the part of the law to ensure that the ringleaders received ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3093 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs