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18th & 19th CENTURY POOLEDorset, England

The 18th century and the early 19th century was the era of smuggling on the south coast of England and Poole Harbour with its many creeks and the chines to the west leading onto the heaths which are now Bournemouth made Poole an ideal location for this clandestine and lucrative trade. The port was the stronghold of smuggling gangs who were second to none on the coast.

Prior to the arrival of steam the merchants of the town grew rich on a flourishing trade with Newfoundland and many of them built their houses near to The Quay.

In the 19^th century, Wimborne and Poole were once flourishing centres of stocking making with the respective towns specialising in silken and knitted woollen wear. In 1842 nearly 1,000 women and girls were employed by the industry in Wimborne. The invention of the knitting frame caused the decline and collpase of the industry.

At the beginning of the 19th century, some ninety per cent of the working population of Poole was involved in the activity of either the Port or the Harbour. In part due to the arrival of the railway and new industries not connected with the harbour, by the turn of the 20th century this figure had dropped to twenty per cent. The advent of vessels of deeper draught which could not use the harbour also contributed to this drop and the decay of the harbour.

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The Story of Poole, Old Town, Port and Harbour
by Joan Sutton, 1988, ISBN0906596041

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