Smuggling Collection

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

Flamborough Head
The North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, England; the chalk cliff is riddled with former smuggling caves. Date: 1950s

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

WW1 - German anti-British propaganda postcard - Caught and Trapped - a duplicitous British Army Officer is captured by the forces of the Central Powers trying to smuggle a machine gun to his men

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

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

French Customs officers X-Ray for smuggled goods 1897

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

Customs inspection with X-rays, World War I
An officer examines a bale of cotton with an X-ray machine to try and detect contraband during World War I in March 1915

Middle Street, Deal, Kent, once infamous for its smuggling connections. Date: circa 1950s

Theatre Villains, The Smuggler, Ideal and Real Date: 1863

Schweizer RG-8B Twin Condor 8103
United States Coast Guard - Schweizer RG-8B Twin Condor 8103, used for covert surveillance of drug smuggling operations. Date: circa 1999

Travellers dining at a restaurant in a French inn, 18thC
Travellers dining at a restaurant in a French inn, late 18th century. Table d hote. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels

X-ray had proven useful in World War One, for locating bullets and foreign bodies in wounded men and also detection of any contraband

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

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

Postal censorship during World War I
Photograph showing condemned goods taken from the mail and stored to await the decision of the Prize Court. Date: 1917

Postal censorship during World War 1
Photograph taken in the Censors Museum which shows attempts which used to be made to smuggle food into Germany through the newspaper post

The campaign against Evil Communications
Page showing a series of photographs depicting the elaborate work of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain: the laboratory where suspicius matter is chemically examined

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

Cartoon, The... High Price of Provisions
Cartoon, The Real Cause of the present High Price of Provisions, or, a View on the Sea Coast of England with French Agents smuggling away Supplies for France

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

Andrew Stimson identifying marine turtles that have been confiscated by H.M. Customs

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

Interpol, Paris, 1960S
A drug-smuggling map of the world, with lines showing the routes by which narcotics are taken from country to country. Date: 1960s

Mme Lenormand Fails
Mme Lenormand sees the futures of her clients, but fails to foresee that she will be arrested at Brussels on a charge of smuggling Date: circa 1820

Mevagissey coastguard
The uniformed coastguard at Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, sits in his office and takes a phone call, perhaps an emergency call

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

ROBIN HOODs BAY 1940S
Idiosyncratic coastal village in North Yorkshire, with a history of smuggling, but little to prove the myth that Robin Hood kept a boat in the bay to make a quick sea escape

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