Old Smuggler Cafe, Whitby
We've opted to include this old café as we love Smuggling legends, in our opinion a place just feels so much more interesting when it has lore regarding pirates or smugglers or fairies. That last one is a big jump from the first two, but you get the point. The blur between fact and fiction is where you'll find us! So naturally a closed café hidden in the maze of Whitby streets with a name like this was bound to catch our attention. What we didn't realise until we came home was just how historic this little building was! Originally the Old Ship Launch Inn, the site, complete with its yard at the back of the building, was one of the important smuggling locations in Whitby. Built around 1401, this former inn was a key location for those crossing the quiet moors in the dead of night with their smuggled goods. The idea was that they'd pull a cart filled with kegs, one of which would have a quill in it. The purpose of this marked one was that if they were caug...
