247. Bo-peep, West Marina, St Leonards, Sussex
The following information was found at the following address www.pubwiki.co.uk/SussexPubs/StLeonards/BopeepHotel.shtml
“Hastings and St Leonards have a long history of smuggling and the Bo Peep area of St Leonards was once a popular place to land contraband. It is often said that the famous nursery rhyme was really about smuggling: Bo Peep was the excise men, the sheep were the smugglers and their tails were the contraband, which the smugglers often threw overboard in an attempt to avoid arrest. This contraband was often washed up on the beach later and recovered. The lesser known later verses refer to Bo Peep finding her sheep without their tails and then discovering the tails hanging out to dry. “
www.hastingspubhistory.com/page16.html
“The Bo Peep is linked with the coming of the railways to Hastings, with smuggling and with a well-known nursery rhyme. Formerly the New England Bank it has had four name changes and has been rebuilt at least twice. It was apparently shown on a map of 1746, and by 1777 it was leased to William Clarke.”
247. Bo-peep, West Marina, St Leonards, Sussex
The following information was found at the following address www.pubwiki.co.uk/SussexPubs/StLeonards/BopeepHotel.shtml
“Hastings and St Leonards have a long history of smuggling and the Bo Peep area of St Leonards was once a popular place to land contraband. It is often said that the famous nursery rhyme was really about smuggling: Bo Peep was the excise men, the sheep were the smugglers and their tails were the contraband, which the smugglers often threw overboard in an attempt to avoid arrest. This contraband was often washed up on the beach later and recovered. The lesser known later verses refer to Bo Peep finding her sheep without their tails and then discovering the tails hanging out to dry. “
www.hastingspubhistory.com/page16.html
“The Bo Peep is linked with the coming of the railways to Hastings, with smuggling and with a well-known nursery rhyme. Formerly the New England Bank it has had four name changes and has been rebuilt at least twice. It was apparently shown on a map of 1746, and by 1777 it was leased to William Clarke.”