Site Of The Public Stocks
York Street - Eastern Side, Near Druitt Street
Charles Bertie mentioned earlier about Oldn
The Late Judge Darling says that when he was a small boy he saw A Pillary in the centre of the old markets. A man was pelted by the mob with all sorts of missiles from Rotten Fruit To Human Excrement. I’m
Note from “The Monitor” 17 May 1837-
“The public stocks have been removed in consequence of the building of the new church St Andrews Cathedral to the south end of York Street, by the police office wall.
Says the Encyclopaedia Britannica – stocks were abolished in 1937 at the end of William IV’s Reign.”