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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 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.
Robert Poole (1818-1903) was an Irish-born engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and benefactor. In 1843 he founded an ironworks in Baltimore, Maryland.For his workforce he hired members of what would become the first generation of modern metalworkers (machinists, molders, patternmakers, and boilermakers)—an emerging trade whose numbers would swell to 250,000 nationally by the end of the 19th ...
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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 ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - 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 ...
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.