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The history of Poole, a town in Dorset, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement around Poole Harbour during the Iron Age. The town now known as Poole was founded on a small peninsula to the north of the harbour. Poole experienced rapid growth as it became an important port following the Norman Conquest of England.
The Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout south-east England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous gangs of the early 18th century, they extended their influence from Hawkhurst, their base in Kent, along the South coast, where they successfully raided the Custom House, Poole.
William Poole (July 24, 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang.
Poole capped his career as librarian of the Newberry Library, a private research institution, from 1887 to 1894. Poole designed the building, which still stands at 60 West Walton Street. [4] While he was a moving force in the modern library movement, Poole's ideas ultimately put him on the wrong side of history.
Scaplen's Court Museum in 2012. Scaplen's Court is a fifteenth century Grade I listed house in Poole, Dorset, England, adjacent to the Poole Museum.The house is now used as a museum focusing on life in Poole between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, and includes a Victorian schoolroom and kitchen.
Sir Henry Poole (1541 – 31 August 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1593. Poole was the son of Sir Giles Poole and his first wife Elizabeth Whittington. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1562.
The following were mayors of Poole, Dorset, England: 1515–16, 1521–2, 1530–1, 1536–7, 1543–4: William Biddlecombe [1] 1597–1598: Roger Mawdley; 1697–8, 1703–4, 1704–5: William Phippard [2] 1798: John Jeffery [3] 2015: Janet Walton [4] 2018: Sean Gabriel [5] [6] 2019, 2020: Marion Le Poidevin [7] 2021: Julie Bagwell [8] 2022 ...
William Henry Evered Poole was born in Caledon, Cape Colony on 8 October 1902. He was the son of Major William John Evered Poole, previously of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and Constance van Breda, a member of one of the best-known Cape Colony families, who had married in October the previous year. As the first-born son, he was given ...