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THE HOME NEWS IN PICTURES: A SURVEY OF LAST WEEK'S EVENTS IN BRITAIN

... celebrate the 2,498th anniversary of the birth of Buddha. TURPIN REGAINS A BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP Two scenes during the contest between Turpin and Alex Buxton, of Watford, at Harringay last week. On left Turpin avoids a left from Buxton during the first round, ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 831 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... believing in the Turpin legend must surely be among the flimsiest ever put forward. He writes He (your correspondent who debunked Turpin) would not write thus if he had done as I have done I have talked to old folk, including descendants of Turpin, in his old ...

SIDELIGHTS UPON HOME EVENTS

... FOR RANDOLPH TURPIN With the Mayor, Alderman 0. R. Davidson, Turpin leaves the Town Hall at Leamington, cheered by over 2,000 people who had gathered there to welcome him home from America. From a balcony of the Town Hall Randolp Turpin thanked the great ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 471 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... even as to Turpin's horsemanship. He would not write thus if he had done as I have done I have talked to folk (including descendants of Turpin) in his old native district. Their information was handed down by their fore bears who knew Turpin and has nothing ...

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... DR. EDMUND HART TURPIN, MUS.DOC. Seated at the organ in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Handel frequently played on this organ Copyright of The Taller ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 25 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

CHOICE OF THE MONTH

... saint j seem a human being.11 (We regret that with our sports selection of Dick Turpin in our last issue, we mistakenly published the portrait of his brother, Randolph Turpin.) ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

CHOICE OF THE MONTH

... per- formance by Guinness SPORT. Dick Turpin. 44 This twenty-seven-year-old Leamington middle-weight celebrated the lifting of the colour bar by becoming the first coloured boxer to qualify for a British title. Of Turpin' s seventy-five wins, this latest ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 284 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DIDES AFFAIR: The Remarkable Espionage Case in Paris in which it is Alleged that Senior Civil Servants ..

... that the Communists were in possession of secret defence information. MADAME TURPIN APPEARS BEFORE THE MILITARY TRIBUNAL The wife of one of the arrested Civil Servants, Rene Turpin, who was assistant to the Secretary-General for National Defence. A CIPHER ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 602 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

HARRINGAY'S KNOCK-OUT EVENING: BRITISH BOXING STAGES A COME-BACK IN LESS THAN TWO MINUTES; OXFORD ON THE ..

... It was the perfect knock-out. Turpin has first to beat Dave Sands, the Australian, before he can tilt at the Middleweight crown of Sugar' Ray Robinson. Sands and Turpin will meet in May. Within a few minutes of Turpin's victory at Harringay there was ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1517 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO..

... weeks of sport, five people in particular emerged triumphant and richly deserved the victories that came their way. RANDOLPH TURPIN, younger of the boxing brothers of Leamington Spa, brought the World's Middleweight Championship back to Britain for I the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 383 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

DISCOVERIES at an OLD COACHING INN

... stately minuet or rollicking Sir Roger de Coverley. The old coaching office remains in the same state as when the truculent Turpin who haunted the vicinity added a zest to travelling which the railroad has never given it. And the beams sup porting the low ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs