Town Beam Plaque

Plaque attached to SZ0090 : Town Beam, Poole. The Borough and County of the Town of Poole This Town Beam repaired Anno Domini 1947 stands on the site of much earlier structures all used for a similar purpose. Note the eye-bolt terminals which carried the steelyards. The following extract from the Corporation Records, AD 1597, explains its use:~ "The Bayle or hys deputye shall receive of every Straunger or fforinor havinge goodes and machandyzes to be wayed, for the poysadge or weighinge the same at the Towne Beame appointed for that purpose one halfpennye for everye hundred weighte whiche halfpennye shal be the whole dutye as well for the beame as for the porters and labor for the puttinge in and takinge oute" ~

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