Old Photograph Of Auchterhouse Scotland

Old photograph of Auchterhouse, on the southern edge of the Sidlaw Hills, seven miles north west of Dundee, Scotland. Auchterhouse was once on a notorious smuggling route. The Sidlaws were a smugglers' haunt and most of the people in the neighbourhood co-operated in the running of the whisky to Dundee. In March 1813 excise officers seized whisky in a field near the Sidlaws. Smugglers attacked the excisemen on their way back to Dundee and got back some of the whisky. Methods of concealment included milk pails with false bottoms and bladder skins from animals which women hid under their dresses.



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