Smugglers Collection

Cid Officers as Dockers
C.I.D officers cunningly disguised as dockers during investigations into drug smugglers at Limehouse Docks, London. One man (r) has a hook for a hand!

Jamaica Inn, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
Jamaica Inn, a Grade II listed building on Bodmin Moor near Bolventor, Cornwall, built as a coaching inn in 1750. Popular with smugglers

Smugglers Unload Goods
A band of smugglers unload their cargo of contraband into a secluded coastal cave, constantly checking for any nearby customs men

SMUGGLER
Though technically criminals, smugglers are often popular heroes, as is this fellow, Will Watch the Smuggler Bold who will die bravely in a fight with the revenue men

Smugglers landing their cargo
The sun dispelling a mist, with smugglers landing their cargo

Jack Rattenbury, smuggler
Jack or John Rattenbury (1778 - 1844), nicknamed the Rob Roy of the West. Born in Beer, Devonshire, Rattenbury was in turn privateer, fisherman, pressed sailor in the Navy, and smuggler

St. Margarets Bay, near Dover, Kent. A small bay, with a shingle beach and chalk cliffs, it was for many centuries a smugglers haunt and the scene of many shipwrecks

John Brown and Co. sink British Revenue Cutter Gaspee
The Burning of the " Gaspee". HMS Gaspee a British customs schooner ran aground after being boarded by a group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown, who attacked, boarded

Page from The Graphic entitled Our Coastguard
A page from The Graphic entitled Our Coastguard, detailing the work of smugglers and lifeboat crews in 1892. 1892

Smugglers on the Swedish westcoast, by Josef Wilhelm Wallander (1821-88) Date: 19th century

Sussex Smugglers / C18Th
SUSSEX SMUGGLERS Daniel Cater chained in the Turff House at Old Mill s. John Cobby is kicking him and Benjamin Tapner is cutting him across the eyes and nose while he is saying the Lords Prayer

Spanish Police arrest a smuggler. Behobia, Basque Country, Spain

Sniffer Cats at Customs
At a London customs office, two cats on the payroll at 3d a day, to detect smuggled goods

English Smuggler
German portrayal of an English smuggler

Smuggler's Cottage, Herne Bay, Kent - Bell Photo postcard, 1952 Date: 1952

Smugglers Lane, Teignmouth, Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

The Smugglers Inn, Waterloo Square, Alfriston, Polegate, East Sussex. Date: circa 1920s

Smuggler's Way, Highcliffe
A photograph showing a distant view of Smuggler's Way, the building of this house began in 1925, but through use of old materials, including oak, bricks and tiles from ancient barns

Pirate Raid
Artwork that seems to show the raiding of pirates or smugglers at the cost of honest tradesmen. Date: circa 1928

Illustration, The Smugglers Cave. late 19th century

Revenue Cutters capturing an American Smuggling vessel
British Revenue Cutters capturing an American Smuggling vessel. Date: circa 1770

The Smugglers Inn, Dawlish, Devon
The Smugglers Inn, Dawlish, near Teignmouth, Devon, England. The Wonder Bar of the West Date: 1956

Port Soderick, Isle of Man - Beach and Smugglers Caves Date: circa 1920

Orlock Point and Smugglers Cove - a view of the rocks and wooden boat in the foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Groomsport). Date: circa early 1900s

Cliff Path and Smugglers Cave, Blackhead - a view of a cave and bridge on the cliff path with three men for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Whitehead). Date: circa early 1900s

The Smugglers Cave, Silver Strand, Wicklow - a view of an entrance to a cave with a lady and boy and girl for scale. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Wicklow: Wicklow). Date: circa early 1900s

Dogs Help Smugglers
Dogs are employed by smugglers to carry contraband goods across the Belgian border. Date: 1902

Hythe, Kent - High Street and Smugglers Retreat Date: circa 1907

Spanish Smugglers hiding out in a cave
Spanish Smugglers at home - hiding in the caves amid the hills on the Spanish / French border, also used as a storehouse for their illicit goods! Date: circa 1910s

LUCAS VELAZQUEZ, Eugenio (1817-1870). Landscape with Smugglers. 1861. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Lạ ro Galdiano Foundation

The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsova

Bazaar at Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The Bazar at the fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsova

Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsoza

Ada-Kaleh, The Mosque
Ada-Kaleh - The Mosque. The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station

Alfriston / Sussex / 1930S
ALFRISTON A stone market cross stands in front of an old smugglers house

Orient Express Halted
The prestigious Orient Express, full of spies, smugglers and femmes fatales, is halted by snow on the Hungary-Romania border

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