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Museum Ref No: B1_0105From Seldown towards old town; Hamworthy; Harbour; Arts Centre; gasworks; Pitwines; Fishermen's Dock; Dolphin Centre; power station; c.1970s.
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Museum Ref No: F1b_0008Two Bournemouth Gas and Water Company lorries, converted for coal gas motor fuel during WW1, with drivers, standing in front of Poole Gas Works. c.1917.
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Museum Ref No: PPS020436p3Advert for the Bournemouth Gas and Water Co. Taken from the Poole and Parkstone Standard 2nd April 1936.
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Museum Ref No: K1 39_2.jpgAeriel Photo of Branksome Gas Holders. Copyright holder Kitchenham Photography Ltd. Please refer to copyright holder for commercial use.
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Museum Ref No: F6d_0006Two men standing in field with cows; one wearing top hat, building in background; lane and gaslamp on right hand side; written underneath "Brown's Farm, Wimborne Road, 1880", 1880
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Museum Ref No: F1e_0027Civil Defence Corps, WWII, Branksome cleaning party volunteers, 11 Civil Defence volunteers, c. end 1944-mid 1945, immediately prior to disbandment. On left Sidney James Cake, second-in-command of cleansing party (HGV driver) Jn centre of line, Ronald Goldsmith, CD sergeant (formerly prison warder). The cleansing party wagons went to the Southampton area, as well as locally after enemy action. No. 1 post Branksome First Aid Ceansing Party. This photo was taken outside the council building at the top of Library Road, Branksome, the building is stiil there. The job of this party was the setting up and running of a gas cleansing station, ie. for the use of persons who had been subjected to poison gas, date 1940-42 or towards the end of the war when the ARP was stood down.
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Museum Ref No: F1e_0023Canford Cliffs cleaning party 1940-44. The job of this party was to decontaminate people who had been effected by mustard gas. Note the equipment in the lorry.
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Museum Ref No: F1e_0022Civil Defence Volunteers (CDV). 11 man cleansing party, formation picture, c.1938. Uniforms not yet issued, 2 tin hats between 11 men! Sidney James Cake wearing armband, on left, front row. White-haired man at RH of front row kept cycle shop in Parkstone. The original members of Branksome ARP post, taken 1938-39 by the Fine Art Studios, The Broadway, Parkstone. Note silver civil defence badges in left hand lapels, straps to gas mask cases, civil defence arm band and tin hats. S.J. Cake on left, front row.
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Museum Ref No: F1b_0031Coal transporter taken from Poole Gas Works. Donated with Jennings Pottery photographs.
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Museum Ref No: MAR 364.133Pegasus Book of Smugglers by Patrick Pringle, published by Dennis Dobson Books, London, 1965. Illus. Chapter 4
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