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Historic Dysart Tolbooth 1576
The Dysart Tolbooth (1576) had its original roof blown off by a drunken trooper from Oliver Cromwell's invading army. The Roundhead soldier accidentally dropped a lighted torch into a keg of gunpowder. The roof was rebuilt, but sadly history does not tell us if the idiot lived through it. If he survived the blast then he might even have been 'fired' a second time!
The Old Merkat Cross in the foreground has stood there since Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887. Sadly some modern day fool mowed it down in his car a few weeks ago. That particular buffoon was arrested for drunk driving and hopefully should lose his driving licence. The cross will have to be moved to another location as it has been flattened by motorists a number of times in the past thirty years.
The building is looked after by Dysart Trust who made live a new website, in January 2009. The site can be accessed at www.dysart-trust.org.uk This site will populated with information in the months to come.
My first posting made Explore although I didn't realise that till a year later.
Historic Dysart Tolbooth 1576
The Dysart Tolbooth (1576) had its original roof blown off by a drunken trooper from Oliver Cromwell's invading army. The Roundhead soldier accidentally dropped a lighted torch into a keg of gunpowder. The roof was rebuilt, but sadly history does not tell us if the idiot lived through it. If he survived the blast then he might even have been 'fired' a second time!
The Old Merkat Cross in the foreground has stood there since Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887. Sadly some modern day fool mowed it down in his car a few weeks ago. That particular buffoon was arrested for drunk driving and hopefully should lose his driving licence. The cross will have to be moved to another location as it has been flattened by motorists a number of times in the past thirty years.
The building is looked after by Dysart Trust who made live a new website, in January 2009. The site can be accessed at www.dysart-trust.org.uk This site will populated with information in the months to come.
My first posting made Explore although I didn't realise that till a year later.