Calamities

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Custom House Raid

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset by Geoffrey Morley, published by Countryside Books, Newbury, 1983. ISBN 0 9053932 24 8. Pages 157-162 cover Custom House raid.
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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
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Custom House Raid, 1747
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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)
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Custom House Raid- Smugglers captured, 1747
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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)
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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.
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Dorset Shipwrecks

Museum Ref No: Mar 363.12309423
Dorset Shipwrecks by David Burnett, published Dovecote Press 1982 ISBN 0946159041 pages 41-46
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Earthquake
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Earthquake

Extract from the Poole Pilot November 1868
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Earthquake 1755
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Earthquake 1755

Extract from Salisbury Journal 1st December 1755. Possible connection with the great Lisbon earthquake of 1st November (DW)
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Fatal accident on rope walk,1756
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Fatal accident on rope walk,1756

Extract from Salisbury Journal 31 May 1756. William Stickland killed by weight falling on him. He was assisting workers at Mrs Green's rope-walk.
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Four drown in canoe accident
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Four drown in canoe accident

Extract from The Poole Pilot April 1868
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