Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100023)
Faded photograph of stocks in Barkisland, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Barkisland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100023
Library ID: 35499921
This form of public humiliation was used to restrain and expose people convicted of misdemeanours; they would be locked into the stocks and would then be subject to the insults and missiles of passing folk.
The stocks are still standing [2003] and are a Grade II Listed Building. The following is from Calderdale Council's listed building description:
Stocks To Front 76 Stainland Road, Barkisland, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Stocks, probably 18th century. 2 dressed stone uprights with slots in the sides for stone slab, lower keeper and wooden upper with metal strap pinion.
