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By William Masters Hardy
SMUGGLING DAYS in PURBECK
First published 1906, reprint 1978. 28 pages soft back. £3.50 + p&p
Regrettably no copy of the illustration mentioned on page 18 was available to the publishers, so it has been omitted from this edition.
It is hoped this book may help residents and visitors to appreciate the unique quality of Swanange.
CURIOSITIES OF SWANAGE or OLD LONDON BY THE SEA
(Code SW1)
(Code SW2)
By David Lewer and J. Bernard Calkin
Memorial edition 2007. 32 pages soft back. £5.00 + p&p
What other town can boast relics associated with the Houses of Parliament, the Mansion House, Waterloo Bridge, Lugate Circus, Millbank and Cheapside, Soho and Billingsgate, Hyde Park Corner and the Royal Exchange?
The haunts, methods and adventures of Purbeck smugglers are vividly brought to life in this book. The reprint remains exactly as it was written, preserving the charm of Victorian prose. Foot notes have been added to help today's readers to identify precisely the location of the various incidents recounted.
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