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4 unusual facts about Arthur Mee


Coifi

Arthur Mee's 1000 Heroes, Page 611 (Vol.1), Pages 1323-1326 (Vol.2)

Harlington Locomotive Society

Arthur Mee's Children's Newspaper carried a long article in the 1950s, and the railway has been covered frequently by broadcasters such as the BBC.

Kettlestone

# Much of this material is mentioned in THE KING'S ENGLAND - NORFOLK - Green Pastures and Still Waters, edited by Arthur Mee, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1940.

Walter Montgomery Jackson

The Children's Encyclopedia was a 10-volume compilation of a popular children's journal of the same name founded and edited by Arthur Mee and published by Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe.



see also

The Children's Encyclopædia

These British Book of Knowledge encyclopedias were edited not by Arthur Mee, but by a series of different editors including Harold FB Wheeler (The Book of Knowledge, circa 1935), John Alexander Hammerton (The Book of Knowledge, 1955) and Gordon Stowell (The New Book of Knowledge, 1959).

West Ardsley

In Arthur Mee's The King's England series, he wrote under Woodkirk, "Sometimes called 'West Ardsley'." This was incorrect, yet Woodkirk was the centre of the parish, as it had the church.