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.
The city and fort can be seen in the distance, across water.
With sailing boats and a steam ship on the Strait.
The 3 are sitting on deck chairs on the deck of a boat. Hilda White and Bob Dixon are looking at the camera (though Dixon’s eyes are closed) and John is not looking.
Showing stone age and bronze age structures.
Photograph taken from [the Great Meteoron Monastry, Ágios ton Meteóron, looking towards Kalambáka].
A photograph of the door, taken from street level [in a moving vehicle].
Group photograph of M. I. Turnbull, Hilda White, John Pendlebury, Bob Dixon and Winifred Lamb, sitting down on rocks.
Group photograph of Miss Turnbull, Hilda White, John Pendlebury, Sylvia Benton and Winifred Lamb, sitting down on rocks.
John Pendlebury added notes in the travel book that the road to the Heraion went over the bridge, and the surface was fine yellow Mycenaean clay.
Travel log includes a note that the mountain has a “Mycenaean (and Hellenistic) fort on top”.