Customs & Excise

Auction, 1749

Extract from the Salisbury Journal 29the May 1749 describing an auction to be held at the Custom House. Brandy, Rum, Tea, Coffee.
Newspaper

Beating the Bounds

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 1/Beating Harbour Bounds 1950s,60s/No.19
Beating the Bounds, uknown date, showing mayoral party at Custom House. (Batting photograph)
Photograph

Beating the Bounds

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 3/Beating Bounds 1961/No.23
Beating the Bounds 1961. Mayoral party with large group of onlookers outside Custom House on Poole Quay. (Batting photograph)
Photograph

Beating the Bounds

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 3/Beating Bounds 1961/No.20
Beating the Bounds 1961. Mayor Mrs. Elsie Hickinson and others outside the Custom House. (Batting photograph)
Photograph

Beating the Bounds

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 3/Beating Bounds 1961/No.16
Beating the Bounds 1961. Mayor Mrs. Elsie Hickinson, Sheriff Tom Sherrin and others outside the Custom House. (Batting photograph)
Photograph

Beating the Bounds

Museum Ref No: G3b_0033
1927 tour of land boundaries; the Mayor, Herbert Carter, reading aloud to the Admiral's jurymen and others outside the Custom House; jurymen dressed as sailors
Photograph

Brandy and Tea Seized, 1752

Extract from Salisbury Journal 4th May 1752 describing the capture of a smuggling vessel and the storage of brandy and tea at the warehouse in Poole.
Newspaper

Brandy Seized at Poole, 1738-9

Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 22nd January 1738-9 reads: "On Monday last a considerable quantity of Brandy was seized by Messrs Milder and Nicholson, His Majesty's Officers at Poole in Dorsetshire, and lodged in the King's warehouse."
Newspaper

Calendar of Patent Rolls

Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsRichardII5pp642
Appointment of John Stormesworth as customs officer in Poole and the surrounding area. 2nd Dec 1395. With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
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Calendar of Patent Rolls

Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsRichardII5pp653
Order for an enquiry into the wealth obtained by Richard Laton in his role as customs officer in Poole and the surrounding area. 24th October 1395. With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
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