I knew a local who used to do an awful lot of poaching, and a certain policeman in Peebles was always trying to catch him.
He was coming along the street on his bike, and the policeman spied him with a big parcel under his arm. And he says, ‘What have you got in the parcel?’
‘Fish.’
‘Right. Down to the Polis Office.’
And he opens up the parcel, and he’s got a couple of cods heads!
He’d been along to the fishmonger to get fish to feed the cats at the Mill.
Duncan Taylor shared memories of Peebles in the 1930s, which were recorded in the early 2000s and are reproduced here by kind permission of The Tweeddale Society from their 2005 publication ‘Peebles Remembered’. Whitie’s Books and Crafts in Peebles have copies.
Images: Today Peebles Police Station and the Scottish Borders Council offices are in this elegant building on Rosetta Road © Les Hull (cc-by-sa/2.0) geograph.org.uk/p/6007605
The police station was previously at Port Brae beside the Tweed Bridge © Jim Barton (cc-by-sa/2.0) geograph.org.uk/p/7944354
