#john bancroft

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1956 illustration by Bowe by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story The Orang-Utan Run by John Bancroft. From The Boy's Own Paper.

[nakeddeparture]

BARBADOS (Naked Departure) -- JOHN BANCROFT -- Beware of this fraudster!! Naked Departure

[architectureofdoom]

Demolishing modernism: Britain’s lost post-war gems

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pimlico school by john bancroft 1967-70

AR 1971

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pimlico school by john bancroft 1967-70

[ghosts-in-the-tv]

Pimlico School, Pimlico, London. Designed by John Bancroft.

[rancidelves]

John Bancroft (Infamous Tory) Anecdote

A great number of my family fought in the Revolutionary War, at least 15 members of the Day family from West Springfield alone, including my direct ancestor, Luke Day, Jr. I have, so far, only found record of one Tory, Capt. John Bancroft, who married into my family, marrying one of the Day cousins, Mary/Mercy Ashley (which I can only imagine caused familial strife when the war broke out).

He openly tried to aid the British from his home in Westfield, helping POWs to escape, passing along intelligence, etc., and was placed under house arrest. There is an entire book about him called Captain John Bancroft, Westfield's Foremost Tory.

There is a very funny anecdote about him, probably fabricated. He was a very pretentious man, and built a huge brick mansion. It is said he used to sit by the window, to be able to yell out to the street, gloating over passersby about his beautiful home.

One such time, he asked an onlooker "Did you think you had reached paradise?", to which the onlooker replied "Yes, I did think so, until I saw the devil looking out of the window!"

[betonbrute]

Pimlico School, London

1967, John Bancroft