Was the Smuggling on Canvey Island carried out by ‘Gentlemen?’
- By Sharon Harris - Tuesday, December 2, 2014
In 1880, in a written description of the Lobster Smack Inn on Canvey Island, Charles Dickens wrote that smuggling still continued in this part of the Essex coast and had a history of smuggled goods’ ‘runs being carried out by ‘Gentlemen’.
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