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Wirral Smugglers, Wreckers and Pirates [Paperback]

Gavin Chappell
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  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Countyvise Ltd (30 Jun 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1906823200
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906823207
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 400,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The book is the first authoritative, illustrated, full-length account of smuggling and related activities in Wirral. Covering the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it represents the first book-length account concerning this important chapter in Wirral's heritage. Not only does it describe familiar facts in great detail - Mother Redcap and her smugglers' tavern on the Wallasey shore, the labyrinth of smugglers' tunnels stretching from the Red Noses in New Brighton throughout Wallasey, and the wreckers who used to prey upon Liverpool-bound shipping - it also covers the less well-known aspects of Wirral's piratical past, including smuggling in Parkgate and Heswall, and the swashbuckling adventures of Captain Fortunatus Wright - the Wallasey privateer.

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Having been born on the Wirral, I had no idea that it was filled with such a romantic and engaging history. This book is filled with wonderful stories about the exploits of some of Wirral's more nefarious inhabitants and is an engaging insight into the social history of our tiny peninsula. In addition to this Chappell writes in an eager gallop that cannot help but draw the reader into the mysterious and action filled exploits of Mother Redcap, Fortunatus Wright and other darker denizens of the Wirral coast.

With a good deal of source material available to the reader, I found myself wondering around the Wirral looking for the some of the places Chappell mentioned. Now when I visit home I no longer look out from the pier at New Brighton and see grey factories: I see shipwrecks and desperate fights and hear the whisper of the ghosts carrying their ill gotten wares down to the cellar at Redcap's.
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