Old Photograph Custom House Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Custom House in Dundee, Scotland. An ornate building, dating from 1591, and known as Drummond Castle or the Old Custom House. During chimney pot repairs in 1808, nearly 200 silver coins of James VI and Charles I were found embedded in the mortar. The builder would appear to have been John Pierson, the name Drummond Castle apparently originating in an 1850 novel in which it appears as a castle of the Drummonds. No trace of that name appears in title deeds. From the middle of the18th century until 1803 it was used as a Custom House.



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