After reading wiki post
I got to thinking about stocks and pillories as punishments and came across a Wikipedia reference that there are/were stocks in Irby.
Can anyone confirm this.
Why did these things fall out of use?
Early form of human rights by do-gooders?

There are stocks just outside the library, as to anything about them I've no idea although I did send some pictures of them to friends in the USA a year or so back.

Bill of Rights [1688]
makes Punishments it illegal for cruel and humiliating Punishments to be inflicted.

So that's when things started to go downhill eh ??

The stocks are a modern copy & sadly not in use!

I think they appeared not long after the library was opened. They were there when I was a kid, anyway .