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Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 4/Untitled box/No.27Railway wagon being used as a scoreboard for an event (probably powerboat race). Film cameraman in background. (Batting photograph)
Photograph
Extract from Salisbury Journal on 25th December 1739 quoting a letter from Benjamin Windsor concerning the crew of the John and Mary, Captain Botley, made prisoners of war in Gijon, Spain.
Newspaper
Transcription of extract from the Salisbury Journal 11th March 1740 reads:
"By a private letter from one of our poor countrymen, prisoner in Spain, to his father at Pool, we are informed, that all the English are threatened with being starved in a prison if they will not enter into the Spanish service."
Newspaper
Extract from Salisbury Journal on 15th April 1740 quoting a letter from John Morris to his wife in Poole. He describes the conditions he is detained in as a prisoner of war in Corunna, Spain.
Newspaper
Museum Ref No: G9_0015Procession of WW1 soldiers along Poole Quay, passing the Custom House.
Photograph
Museum Ref No: PPS080736p16Photograph of Jimmy Allen, famous footballer, who refereed the Pushball Tournmament, from Poole and Parkstone Standard, 8th July 1936
Newspaper
Dennis Mallett recalls RAF Hamworthy in World War II.
Audio video
Museum Ref No: AH_Recreation_Ground_and_War_Memorial_BroadstonePostcard caption reads "Recreation Ground and War Memorial, Broadstone".
From the Andrew Hawkes collection.
Photograph
Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsHenryIV1315Accusation of John Rede, parson of the Poole church, among others, of assault, theft and intimidation at various locations in Devon and Dorset. 22nd June 1400.
With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
Document
Tom Redmon on a Poole Fishermen's Day outing to Winchester c.1920s
Photograph
