Tower and clock of Dysart Toolbooth of 1576
Today Dysart is a mix of modern and historic buildings – mainly of the late 1700s and 1800s - with the Tolbooth on High Street at its heart. This was built in 1576 and housed both the public weights and measures office and the jail, where witches, smugglers and pickpockets were held behind barred cell doors. In 1656, troops from Cromwell’s army who were billeted there succeeded in blowing the roof off after dropping a lighted torch into a barrel of gunpowder.
Size: 3600px × 5400px
Location: Dysart Fife Scotland UK United Kingdom GB Great Britain Europe
Photo credit: © Ben Cleuch / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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