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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.

Photograph of “The Colonel” [PEN/2/2/1/256], Photograph of “The Colonel”, [c. 9-27 Mar 1928]

[One of the diggers at Molyvopyrgos, who had “adopted” John Pendlebury], standing outside a house with a woman in the doorway.

Photograph of “The Encampment” at Molyvopyrgos excavation (near Olynthos) [PEN/2/2/1/257], Photograph of “The Encampment” at Molyvopyrgos excavation (near Olynthos), [c. 9-27 Mar 1928]

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 of “Group outside ‘Professor Ridgeway’s’ Myriophyton”, near Olynthos [PEN/2/2/1/280], Photograph of “Group outside ‘Professor Ridgeway’s’ Myriophyton”, near Olynthos, [c. 28 Mar – 13 Apr 1928]

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.

Photograph of “Hilda [White] & Tortoise” at Olympia [PEN/2/2/1/281], Photograph of “Hilda [White] & Tortoise” at Olympia, [25 Apr 1928]

Taken by Professor Woodhead [William Dudley Woodhead, Professor of Greek/Classics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada].

Handwritten copies [by John Pendlebury] of walking routes from books [PEN/2/2/1/286], Handwritten copies [by John Pendlebury] of walking routes from books, [c. 5-12 Jan 1928]

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”.