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  • After all that fresh Dorset air I'd recommend a visit to the Bankes Arms pub (bankesarms.com, +44 (0)1929 450225).

    Ten top UK winter walks: Old Harry Rocks, Dorset 2010

  • She doubts she can rely on him while he sees her as his redemption for failing to keep a victim safe from Bankes.

    One Scream Away-Kate Brady « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • At the time Bankes recently rich from an inheritance was on his first trip around the Middle East “collecting” antiques, sketching, writing reams of descriptive scribble, drawing maps, and copying hieroglyphs.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • On his second trip, in 1818 financed by an even bigger inheritance, Bankes excavated, “collected,” even more Egyptian bits, and barged back to England an obelisk, which he erected on his estate at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, in front of the house.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • At the time Bankes recently rich from an inheritance was on his first trip around the Middle East “collecting” antiques, sketching, writing reams of descriptive scribble, drawing maps, and copying hieroglyphs.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • On his second trip, in 1818 financed by an even bigger inheritance, Bankes excavated, “collected,” even more Egyptian bits, and barged back to England an obelisk, which he erected on his estate at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, in front of the house.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Moreover, the news feed company founded by Nick Denton, David Galbraith, and Angus Bankes — where I sat on the board — has been sold to Verisign.

    Another deal: Moreover sold « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Bankes- Jones's inventive, simple production uses just a few chairs and pieces of rope to create the various locations.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Bankes- Jones's inventive, simple production uses just a few chairs and pieces of rope to create the various locations.

    Odysseus Unwound! 2006

  • There the matter rested, with Her Majesty's Government solicitously guarding one of Orwell's last secrets, until shortly after Celia Kirwan's death last autumn, when her daughter, Ariane Bankes, found a copy of the list among her mother's papers, and subsequently invited me to write about it.

    Orwell's List 2003

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