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The stocks, along with the pillory and the whipping post, were instruments of punishment at one time in use throughout England.

The market cross, similar to the one at Bungay, housed the stocks until the 19th century.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

St Vincent's Place was right in the commercial heart of the city with the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum club all nearby.

The Stock Exchange was yet another symbol of Glasgow's industrial might.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

A plaque on the structure protecting the stocks refers to the legislation of 1376, which required that stocks be set up in every town and village 'to encourage virtue and discourage evil doers'

What could be more English than the stocks (now restored) on the village green, with the manor house in the background?

At this point, the Market Place adjoins Blackpool Old Road.

Looking towards the church tower spire and the south entrance into the baptistry.

Before the establishment of county police forces in the 1840s, parish constables had to punish offenders. They could either be placed in the stocks for a period of time, or whipped.

The shelter over the ancient wooden stocks in the churchyard appears to be newly erected in this photograph.

The stocks and whipping post were moved from their previous position against the Bridewell wall to protect them from the 'increase in traffic' generated by the newly- built Fire Station.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

The truncated Saxon Cross in Eyam churchyard forms the centrepiece of this postcard.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms. Nearby was an area of open heathland.

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

The photograph shows the Cock Pit as it was in 1929. The post box is a unique Victorian model dated 1856. The stocks are thought to have come from Clewer in the late 1920s.

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

The 16th-century Falkland Arms is a typically olde-worlde English pub. It was once owned by the Falkland family, hence its name.

The architecture is interesting, including the Stock Exchange, and St George's Tron Church.