Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100737)
'Bacchus Inn', Cripplegate, and the Stocks and old West Gate, Halifax Parish Church, West Yorkshire.
Author: R.G. Farrar
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100737
Library ID: 097252
Two photographs of the area around the Halifax Parish Church:
p1: 'Bacchus Inn', Cripplegate, built about 1760 and demolished 1937. The photo shows the Inn up for sale, and may have been taken in the period prior to demolition. Cripplegate is where the sick and infirm came to take the waters of the Well of St John the Baptist, or Jonas Well, a natural spring near the junction of Mulcture Hall Road.
p2: Stocks and the old West Gate of Halifax Parish Church. 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 in a bad state of repair.
