About the John Pendlebury Family Papers
The John Pendlebury Family Papers cover the period from 1913 to 1964 and document the life of archaeologist and WWII hero John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, his wife Hilda and their family.
Photographers shadow in the foreground, another figure standing by Caryatids.
[Taken during a walk to Kaisariani and Hymettos, Imittós Óros].
[One of the diggers at Molyvopyrgos, who had “adopted” John Pendlebury], standing outside a house with a woman in the doorway.
Photograph includes tents and people captioned as “Fur Neck” [Palamides, owner of the land], “Comic Brother” [one of 3 brothers who lived in a house that the excavation was using a room of for a kitchen], “The Kyrios”, Dimitri and Seraphim.
Photograph includes legs of people standing on the wall.
[Taken during the journey from Molyvopyrgos to Myriophyto excavations].
Taken during the journey from Molyvopyrgos to Myriophyto excavations].
[Taken during the journey from Molyvopyrgos to Myriophyto excavations].
Excavation based at Myriophyton/Myriophyto.
Photograph includes [local] girls and women and [Walter Heurtley].
8 people standing outside a house [that the excavation team were staying in]: Locals? to the left. Right of doorway, [Sylvia Benton], another woman (possibly Miss Hett), [Ralegh Radford] and John Pendlebury. See letter to his father, PEN 1/3/1/5/26 for reference to house and people.
Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].
Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].
One of a pair of photographs.
One of a pair of photographs.
Comprises copies of walking routes from [‘The Itinerary of Greece: Containing One Hundred Routes in Attica, Boeotia, Phocis, Locris, and Thessaly’ by William] Gell, [‘Pausania’s Description of Greece’ by James George] Frazer and an Admiralty Handbook. Contains routes (with timings) for “Hieron to Damalá [Troizín]”, “Epidauros [Epídhavros] to Potamia”, “Dhamala [Troizín] to Poros [Póros]”, “Hieron to Epidauros [Epídhavros]” and “Old Epidauros [Epídhavros] to Poros [Póros] along the Coast”.