Poole Photographic Archive Books on the history of Poole Andrew Hawkes Andrew Hawkes's family has been associated with the town of Poole since the middle of the eighteenth century; they ran the family shoe business in Poole High Street for over 150 years. Andrew is now retired, but still runs the family property company. His lifetime hobby is collecting photographs of old Poole which now numbers many thousands detailing all districts in Poole, the collection is now called the "Andrew Hawkes Poole Photograph Archive" Andrew Hawkes is a "Freeman of Poole" having served on the Poole Lifeboat for some 35 years. Andrew has published a series of ten books as Memories of Old Poole which show Poole as it was, and one of Brownsea Island at the opening of the twentieth century, he has written the updated history of the Poole Lifeboat Poole Lifeboatmen never Turn Back and also written the history of Poole public houses in A Pint Of Good Poole Ale, he is currently compiling a new book on Poole Quay, Poole on the Waterfront which he hopes will be published next year. Andrew can be contacted at hawkes99@gmail.com