The use of stocks, pillory, gallows and gibbets all took place. More were hanged from gibbets erected along the roadside. Thereafter, their bodies were hung in gibbets erected at the bastions of Fort Ricolli. Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets. The real Deacon Willie Brodie was indeed a cabinetmaker and fashioner of gibbets. Georges Simenon's novel "Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets" starts in the railway station. Though no longer in use, these gibbets can still be seen today.