The Guardian a couple of days ago showed us -

David Willetts, MP for Havant, is unveiling Hayling Island’s latest tourist attraction this weekend: a replica set of public stocks. The organisers, Discover Hayling, claim that they form “the latest attempt to put the Hampshire island back on the tourist map”.

I’m a big fan of sets of stocks in the town square. Quite a few villages around us have their own, set in the middle of the village green, waiting for the miscreants. I don’t think the stocks do all that much for the tourism: even Abel and I don’t travel somewhere specifically to see them.

I suggest that “Discover Hayling” build a whipping post next to them, and invite reenactors to liven up the scenery on market days. I’m volunteering my husband to wield the whip.

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