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Museum Ref No: H2a_0016Portrait of Agnes Rudd; on carte de visite; 1880-1900
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Museum Ref No: H1a007Five photographs ('passport' size); portrait of William Turnbull Rudd; 1880-1900
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This documents contains an introduction about the Rules of the St. James' Church Sunday School, with a list of books for wider reading about the Poole Sunday Schools, which were some of the earliest established in the country. It will be of particular interest to people interested in social history of this era, and those interested in the earliest developments of the British school system, which grew from these early beginnings.
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Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 6th October 1746 reads: "Wednesday last was seiz'd and brought to his Majesty's Warehouse in Pool, Dorset 102 half ankers of Rum and Brandy and 3 bags of Tea by messrs Pope, Milner, Bailey and Snook, officers at Swanidge and Studland."
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Museum Ref No: Canmem6RussellRussell Memorial photographed in Canford Church, June 2015
Information included:
Thomas Macnamara Russell Esquire
Admiral of the White. late Commander in Chief in the North Seas.
He actively served his Country Seventy Years with ardour, bravery and ability and combated her enemies in Thirty six engagements. His most undaunted spirit of enterprize during the first revolutionary wars of America and France was unrivalled.
In1784 he was offered The Honour of Knighthood and at the close of his brilliant career he receieved the warmest acknowledgements from the Admiralty for his superior conduct as a Naval Chief
His successful blockade of the Texel during the threatened invasion of our shores was conducted on a new and admirable system of his own.
He was the first who had ever dared to anchor a Fleet there in the strongest gales of a Northern Winter and on an enemy’s lee shore.
Heligoland surrendered to him by which he secured invaluable advantages to his Country.
The Magnanimous intrepid and generous heart of a British Seaman was united in him with the urbanity of a Courtier.
He departed This Life on the 22nd Day of July 1824 in his 85th Year.
Elizabeth his Wife Died on the 2nd of March 1818 in her 66th Year
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Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 1/Unboxed glass negs/Russell QuayRussell Quay. (Batting photograph)
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Museum Ref No: Coney album 6 photograph 13On board Russian sailing ship in Poole. (Coney photograph)
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Museum Ref No: Coney album 3 photograph 90Horse and wagon of S.E. Buckley, delivery agent to the Southern Railway, Serpentine Road, Poole outside Poole Railweay Station. (Coney photograph)
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Museum Ref No: Coney box 1 photograph 9Unidentified sailing and rowing dinghies at Poole. Coal transporter in background. (Coney photograph)
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Museum Ref No: Coney album 5 photograph 15Sailing boat Barrow Duck with (possibly) Mr. Coney. (Coney photograph)
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