by Campbell Brodie Sat 31 Aug 2013 - 18:48
Went to a wee village called Auchtermuchty today. (Yes, it is a real place...
).
Town clock at the old market square...
This is a picture of the set for Doctor Finlay's Casebook which was on TV...
Here's Trish in the same place...
The burn goes under the street at this wee bridge. There is still no weight limit to vehicles on it which is a great tribute to the old builders...
You can see in this photo where they have blocked up the steps where people would have went down to the burn for water. The old bottom stone is still there...
Here's an old bonded warehouse, long abandoned, and you can see they barred up the windows to stop any thefts of whisky. The distillers would have to pay tax on any spirits they made straight away, but the barrels would be stored for years as they "matured"...
Here's Mermaid standing next to 'Muchty's most famous son, the great Jimmy Shand...
Look at this old window in the wall...now look again and see the even older archway which was blocked up to make the window. Must have been a stable entrance here at one point...
Lovely row of old cottages...
Peacock butterfly landed on a buddleia flower floating on the burn....
...another nice day out.