Smuggling at Robin Hood's Bay

"RobinHood's Bay was surely built for smuggling. Possibly some of Robin Hood's men, if smuggling then existed, were engaged in the exciting pasttime of smuggling contraband goods; at any rate, their successors were past masters in the art. Almost every house had some handy recess for the concealment of goods, often hollowed out of the rock itself. On October 6th, 1779, Officers of the Excise seized in the dwelling of one of the innkeepers two hundred casks of brandy and geneva, 150 bags of tea, and a chest full of blunderbuses and cartuch boxes for twenty men. But the band of smugglers forced them to surrender all but twenty casks and ten bags of tea; the commander of the vessel coming to the rescue being none other than the celebrated Dover, who had just before broken into the Custom House at Hartlepool." The history of Robin Hood's Bay by Robert Jermyn Copper. (more can be find on website : http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/arobin hoodsbaysmuggle.php ) Smugglers is a candle lit bistro in the heart of the Old Bay, nestled in the Dock, just a few meters from the shoreline.

Robin Hood's Bay North Yorkshire

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