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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.
Poole fared poorly in the general election, receiving only 199 votes and tying for last place with his ticket-mate against four other candidates. [5] In February of 1853, Poole was appointed to represent the Sixth Ward on the New York City Board of Education. [6] Bill Poole portrait from a tobacco company boxer profile card, circa late 1880s
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.
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 ...
Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. The harbour has a long history of human settlement stretching to pre-Roman times.
Henry Paye (died 1419), also known as Harry, Page or Arripaye (to the Spanish), was a privateer and smuggler from Poole, Dorset in the late 14th and early 15th century, who became a commander in the Cinque Ports fleet. He intercepted hundreds of French ships for gold, wine, exotic fruits and brought it back to the people of Poole.
The World Health Organization said it has dismissed a biosecurity expert after an internal inquiry upheld allegations of sexual misconduct but the man's lawyer dismissed the investigation as a ...
The Haven Hotel at the tip of the Sandbanks Peninsula in Poole.. The Haven Hotel was rebuilt in 1926, [5] when the country still ricocheted from the Great War and Britain’s hotel architecture was stagnant, it was hailed a seaside architectural triumph.