Events

Custom House Raid

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Custom House Raid by Hawkhurst Gang in Smuggling Days by K. Merle Chacksfield, published by Dorset Publishing, Milborne Port, 1966. ISBN 0 902129 56 2. Pages 102-107
Book

Custom House Raid, 1747

Extract from Salisbury Journal 12th October 1747 describing a raid on Poole Custom House. The 'Company of persons' are the Hawkhurst Gang (KH)
Newspaper

Custom House Raid- Smugglers captured, 1747

Extract from the Salisbury Journal 26th October 1747. A number of the gang of smugglers who broke into the Custom House at Poole have been captured at Dalton by a party of Dragoons. (The 'gang of smugglers' are known as the Hawkhurst Gang- KH)
Newspaper

Cutler, Poole Carnival 1936

Museum Ref No: PPS080736p18
Photograph of Mr B.A. Cutler, mainspring and secretary of the Carnival Association, taken from Poole and Parkstone Standard 8th July 1936
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Cycle Racing in the Park.

Museum Ref No: AH_SportsField
Postcard of a cycle race in Poole Park, with "Poole Park One Mile Cycle Handicap" inscribed on rear. From the Andrew Hawkes collection.
Photograph

D-Day Poole

Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337084
D-Day Poole by Derek Beamish and Ian Andrews, published by Poole Historical Trust, 1993. Illus.
Book

Danes

Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337
History of the Borough and County of the Town of Poole by H. P. Smith, Poole, J. Looker Ltd., vol. 1 1948. Pages 106-108.
Book

Davis, Tommy Davis

Tommy Davis on a Poole Fishermen's Day outing to Winchester c.1920s
Photograph

Death of T. Spurrier

Extract from the Salisbury Journal of 21st June 1756.The Fox; privateer; ready for cruise. Mr T. Spurrier dies. Miss Nairn marries Dr Jackson. Hessians visit.
Newspaper

Dellow, Maj. C.D. Dellow

Museum Ref No: F2b_0012 det.
Maj. C.D. Dellow, O.C. J.Coy., Poole A.Tk. Island Command, 3rd Dorset H.G., July 1944.
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