Village Stocks Debate – 1954

During June and July 1954 there was a rather bizarre debate carried out across three editions of the Coventry Evening Telegraph about whether there were stocks on Church Lawford Village Green – or whether there had been any in the past.

Church Lawford Green around 1900 showing the Stocks in front of the old tree stump
Diagram from 19th Century book showing the stocks and the trees on the green in Church Lawford