How many Stocks !

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Happy New Year everybody ! 
I have been set a challenge ! 
How many pictures can I find of Poulton stocks ?!!! 


Ok this was taken last year in 2019...



With the red flowers 2014...



This is from one of my slides - 1967  


Another one of my slides from 1967 



















Re the image above - Richard benson on Poulton past had the following to say ! - I had a story about the stocks id like to share. My Great Aunt told me this many years ago. Just after the war the stocks where vandalised. At the same time our family farm (Butlers Farm), which was located at the end of First Avenue and land extended to what is now Garstang Road, was bought by the council for housing. The gate posts from the farm where used to rebuild the stocks and are still there today. Quite humbling that I have a small link to my home town land mark. Here's a picture to the old farm and the gate posts that my Mum painted when she was little !



These are now at the museum with Farmer Parr, donated by well you know !! 

Poulton stocks are known to be mediaeval and they’re, apparently, flanked by the posts in question. Unfortunately, however, these pillars are not the originals. The September 1992 edition of Lancashire Life reliably informs us that: “In the days when double-deck buses had to make a tight turn, these were shattered several times and had to be replaced by weathered stone posts salvaged from local farms.” 



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