“Painting Place Red:” Youths fined for seaside escapade: “It outrageous that young visitors should go about actually painting 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 willful damage. It was alleged 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 daubed a post-office pillar-box with white paint. Through their parents’ boys apologized, and they were each fined 50s and 50s damage.
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GRO0754 Devonport: Roger Philip Pinsent: 1916 – 1997