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Footbridge and level crossing

Museum Ref No: F3a_0040
Footbridge and level crossing, High Street, Poole; looking towards Baiter, 1970-1986 period
Photograph

Footbridge and level crossing, Towngate Street

Museum Ref No: F3a_0004
Railway level crossing and footbridge,Towngate Street
Photograph

Foreman and workers at Ballast Quay

Museum Ref No: H1_0010
Group portrait; foreman and workers; Ballast Quay, c.1900 (detail of right hand front). Unidentified
Photograph

Foreman and workers at Ballast Quay

Museum Ref No: H1_0009
Group ortrait of foreman and workers; Ballast Quay, c.1900 (detail of centre front). Unidentified
Photograph

Foreman and workers at Ballast Quay

Museum Ref No: H1_0008
Group photograph of foreman and workers at Ballast Quay, c.1900. Unidentified
Photograph

Four-masted schooner "Westward"

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 12/Ships 5/No.10 - Westward
Four-masted schooner "Westward", dressed overall, in Poole Harbour for Poole Regatta
Photograph

Fox Privateer

Extract from Salisbury Journal of 2nd August 1756. Fox - a Poole privateer captures two French brigs.
Newspaper

Fox Privateer, 1756

Transcription of an entry in the Salisbury Journal of 18th October 1756. The ship sent into Poole by the "Fox", appears to be the Bristol Packet, "Goodwing", bound from Piscataqua to Biddeford, laden with Boards, Fish, Oil and Masts etc, taken by the French the 5th inst. in Lat. 46 14 Long 7. Piscataqua may be on the N.E. coast of the American colonies (DW)
Newspaper

French Men of War, 1739

Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 14th August 1739 reads: "By a letter from Pool dated the 6th instant we have an account that the "Samuel and Hannah", Captain Vallis, who arrived there that day from London, met with a French Man of War off Beachy and another off Fairlight standing to the eastward. He supposed them to be ships of 50 guns."
Newspaper

Frozen Lake.

Museum Ref No: B6a_0022
The banks of Poole Park Lake under substantial snowfall, looking towards the gasometer.
Photograph