Station on Cuckoo Hill, and a third where Warrior Square now is. The neighbourhood is also very much altered. Just above the present Brook Estate was a series of osier-beds, and beyond them, stretching up the valley were hop-grounds, extending as far as Buck's Hole. This was quite a romantic place. It is now occupied by the large reservoir of the waterworks. These places, as well as Smuggler's Hole, not far from Newgate Wood, Shepherd's Hole, and Shepherd's Barn, were noted meeting places for the look-out men ; but of all the places for their meetings, there was none equal to the Iron Latch Gate. This was near the Grove Farm-house , and was handy to roads which intersected each other coming from the country on the one hand, and leading down to the sea-shore on the other. In addition, there was a large hollow place close to the road-side, and over-shadowed by trees capable of concealing from five to six hundred men.
Another convenient place of meeting was Dunn's Barn, on the present Blackland's Estate, at the junction of Mount Pleasant Road with Elphinstone Road. The doors of this barn were frequently left unfastened by the tenant of the farm. On an occasion of a small party of smugglers meeting there, they thought they could hear some one in the place, and groping about, they came upon a man, one of the workmen on the farm ; upon questioning him on his -
