Can you remember the ferryman who gave a rowing boat service between the Quay and the Shipwrights Arms on the Lower Hamworthy side and Burdens and Piplers on the Poole side? The fee was 1 penny per trip per person.
My mother would use the ferry boat some days when she’d been shopping in the High [...]
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Until he died, my dad would fish or rake for cockles in Poole Harbour, selling his catch to the local pubs. The cockles needed to be fresh, so our tin bath was their haven until sold. However, Friday nights were bath nights so our small kitchen became the bathroom. The salt water was rinsed from [...] From 1940-1945 my schooling was at Henry Harbin School (now Poole High School). The headmaster then was local historian Mr H P Smith. |
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