|
Note the old fisher cottages, most of them now extended and harled, but with attractive fish scale tiles. On the right, next to number 16, stands the old Smokehouse, a low whitewashed building with a square black chimney. This is the oldest and last surviving smokehouse in the village and probably about 200 years old. Haddock were brought here to be smoked over wood, after gutting and cleaning in the spring that used to emerge from the top of the road. The fish was mostly for village use, but any surplus would be carried by the women the twelve miles to Aberdeen on a Friday to be sold at the Green. House No 31, is the nearest to the original design of a one-storey stone fisherman's cottage. The loft would have been used for storing nets and lines.
|
