Tobacco pouch story "The Adventure of Black Peter". Along with boots, tobacco pouches were the one of the first uses of the zip. Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer and one of the first to popularise tobacco smoking in England, kept a tobacco pouch during his final imprisonment with a Latin inscription: "Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore" ("It was my companion at that most miserable time"). Commercial tobacco pouches have been produced in order to provide legitimacy to counterfeit tobacco. £8million of tobacco pouches were seized in Merseyside in 2012. Tobacco pouches, fake or genuine, have also been the target
Castles in Great Britain and Ireland image of a Gothic medieval castle. Scott's novels set in Scotland also popularised several northern castles, including Tantallon which was featured in "Marmion". Histories of Ireland began to stress the role of castles in the rise of Protestantism and "British values" in Ireland, although tourism remained limited. One response to this popularity was in commissioning the construction of replica castles. These were particularly popular at beginning of the 19th century, and again later in the Victorian period. Design manuals were published offering details of how to recreate the appearance of an original Gothic castles in a new build, leading to