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.
A lion is (just) visible, sitting in the shadow of a rock.
View of edge of water, possibly lions in long grass. The back of a vehicle is also in the frame.
View of edge of water with a lion standing next to it, and the back of a vehicle.
View of a lioness (walking away from camera) with cubs. The back of a vehicle is also in the frame.
View of workers with trolleys of earth, silhouetted on horizon.
View of 2 lionesses with cubs, and a vehicle in the distance.
A cub is eating an [antelope] hanging from a tree.
A lioness and cub are eating an [antelope] hanging from a tree.
Including men working on the excavation.
View includes workers at the excavation.
[“Stout Cortey” is probably a reference to a poem by John Keats ‘On First Looking into Chapman's Homer’ which includes the line “Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes”].
This was the ship that John Pendlebury was travelling on from England to Egypt.