tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post5177794398548003432..comments2024-03-14T20:26:26.877+00:00Comments on Caroline's Miscellany: Tea smuggling in DeptfordCarolineLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-69104564034837185402012-04-11T13:03:07.440+01:002012-04-11T13:03:07.440+01:00Hello Ross,
These are newspaper cuttings in a coll...Hello Ross,<br />These are newspaper cuttings in a collection held by the British Library (search their catalogue under 'Deptford'). You may well also be able to find them in 18th Century Newspapers Online (the Burney Collection) or via ConnectedHistories.org, which is a brilliant site for London history.CarolineLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-50490552130623450172012-04-05T10:55:33.607+01:002012-04-05T10:55:33.607+01:00H i Caroline,
I am a student at university and i ...H i Caroline,<br /><br />I am a student at university and i am doing my dissertation on Smuggling in South London, i was wondering where you found your sources from? I have many sources from the surrounding area but not deptford itself.Rossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-70005791331031681322009-06-25T12:33:21.968+01:002009-06-25T12:33:21.968+01:00You just couldn't trust the horses in those da...You just couldn't trust the horses in those days...<br /><br />Perhaps smuggling still continues in Deptford today, but I doubt it would be boxes of PG Tips.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-62704856710587660492009-06-25T11:24:47.356+01:002009-06-25T11:24:47.356+01:00The tea tax reached such a level in the eighteenth...The tea tax reached such a level in the eighteenth century (119%) that it has been estimated more tea was smuggled than imported legally! Things calmed down again at the end of the century when the tax was reduced to more sensible levels. The <a href="http://www.tea.co.uk/page.php?id=6" rel="nofollow">UK Tea Council</a> has a nice summary.CarolineLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-37513499079725332132009-06-25T06:25:41.337+01:002009-06-25T06:25:41.337+01:00Thanks for the link to my post "Chocolate, Te...Thanks for the link to my post "Chocolate, Tea, Coffee". <br /><br />I love the topic because a] it totally altered our social behaviour and b] it altered our household porcelain and silver. But apart from crawling around the smugglers' caves in Kent, I know nothing about the criminal consequences of importing tea.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com