Showing posts with label stocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stocks. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2014

Did your ancestors spend time sitting in the stocks.

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Many of the villages in Hertfordshire would have stocks (see Early Crime and Punishment). Bishop Stortford Museum has kindly provided the following picture of the stocks that formerly stood in Thorley churchyard.
Thorley Stocks
The stocks at Aldbury still survive in the open air - but time has taken it toll. Do you know of any other Hertfordshire stocks that can still be seen  - preferably in their original location?