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 album containing handwritten itineraries and photographs of John Pendlebury’s trips around Crete including: around the Messara [Mesarás, Pedhiás] 1934; East Crete (with Seton Lloyd, Joan Lloyd, Tristram Hillier and Richard Wyndham) 1934; West Crete (with Hilda Pendlebury and Khronis [Bardakis/Vardhakes]) 1935; Lasithi [Lasíthi] area (with R W Hutchinson) 1935; Dia [Día, Nísos] (with Manolaki and Kosti) 1935; Mount Ida and Central Crete (with Manolaki, Kosta Kounalis, R W Hutchinson and Mercy Money-Coutts) 1935; Lasithi [Lasíthi] and Hierapetra [Ierápetra] Isthmus (with Mercy Money-Coutts) 1935; the South Coast of Crete (with Hilda Pendlebury) 1936; Agios Nikolaos [Áyios Nikólaos] to Lasithi [Lasíthi] (with Hilda Pendlebury and Mercy Money-Coutts) 1936; Mount Ida (with Hilda Pendlebury and Mercy-Money Coutts) 1936; Messara and Kophinos [Mesarás, Pedhiás and Kófinas, Óros] (with Mercy Money-Coutts and R W Hutchinson) 1937; “Milatos, Spina Longa, Pakhyammos, Kalamafka, Lasithi” [Mílatos, Spinalónga, Pacheía Ámmos…Lasíthi] 1937; “Dikte, Psykhro, Mathia, Lyttos, Knossos” [Mount Dickte, Psikhrón, Mathiá] (with Mercy Money-Coutts), 1937; “Anogeia, Axos, Nidha, Psiloriti, Zaros, Melabes, Kavo Melissa” [Anógeia, Axós, Nida Plateau, Mount Ida, Zarós, Mélambes] (with Mercy Money-Coutts and Kosta Kounalis) 1937; East Crete, 1938; “To Lasithi…Phrati, Emparos, Limnarkanos, Tzermiadho” [Lasíthi…Afrátion, Émbaros…Tzermiádhes] (with Hilda Pendlebury, Frank Thompson, Mercy Money-Coutts, Vincent Desborough and Marion Pascoe) 1938: another trip to East Crete (with Martin Hammond, Molly Hammond and Hilda Pendlebury) 1938; West Crete (with R W Hutchinson) 1939; East Crete, 1939; Central Crete, 1939; and Lasithi [Lasíthi] (including a glendi on Karphi), 1939.
View of the walls of the house
View looking down onto ruins of a house
Kronis Bardakis is holding a container [of drink].
Posed photograph of the travelling group, with [local] men and boys. Group includes Kronis Bardarkis, Joan Lloyd and Seton Lloyd.