'Smugglers lights at St Margaret's Bay', an account by local fisherman Jim Atkins
Extract which reveals how shielded lamps were used to warn and guide smugglers out at sea as they approached their intended landing place to discharge their smuggled goods.
Jim Atkins was one of a long line of a family of fisherman who fished from St Margaret’s Bay well into the 1960’s
Subject
St Margaret's Bay (808)
Date of creation
1976Date of coverage
1976Place
St Margaret's Bay, The BayReference number
MARG.01673Format
Text (691)
Keywords
Smuggling (7)
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