18th Century Smuggling in Wallasey

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In 18th Century North West England, Illegal trade across the coasts grew at a prodigious rate. Non more so than The Wallasey shoreline thanks to a lady named Mother Redcap.

Ask anyone to describe an 18th Century Smuggler and they would romanticise a picture of a man dressed in a striped jersey with a waist vote, boots and trousers. Not forgetting a Tricorn hat.

Most of the original Smugglers in Wallasey were fisherman by day and smugglers by night.

Thanks to the Smugglers, not many a house in old Wallasey didn’t contain a bottle of Brandy or Rum that had been wrecked near to the Red Noses. Food and Drink was plentiful thanks to the Smugglers.

Trade Links between Liverpool and the rest of the world have the Smugglers a taste of all corners of the world. Each day brought a Wreck and each Wreck brought a different Cargo. 

Old Wallasey was a hive of Maritime activities.

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