“Painting the Place Red”: “It is outrageous that young visitors to Seaview should go about actually painting the place red.” said the presiding magistrate at Ryde, Isle of Wight., to-day, when Stephen Mackenzie, a Cambridge undergraduate, of Dorking. and Roger Pinsent, a public schoolboy, of Somerset, were charged with doing willful damage. It was alleged against them that late at night they painted statues of lions on the lodge gates of a large house at Seaview with blue and red paint and also daubed a Post Office pillar box with white paint. Through their parents, the boys apologized, and they were each fined 50s and 50s damage.
[see also Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer: Friday 23rd September 1932]
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GRO0754 Devonport: Roger Philip Pinsent: 1916 – 1997