Old times re-visited in the borough and parish of Lymington, Hants . CO O. 0053 THE THIKD TOWN HALL. 27 useless; and was removed about 1820. The Town Hall (c) thenstood alone; and being in its turn found inconvenient, and in theway of carriages and other vehicles, was finally pulled down in1858, to the great improvement of the street. The other civil institutions of the town (as we have called them),viz., the pillory, stocks, and whipping-post, need no stood, at first, in the High Street, by each Town Hall inits turn. The last had not been used during the present century :but
Old times re-visited in the borough and parish of Lymington, Hants . CO O. 0053 THE THIKD TOWN HALL. 27 useless; and was removed about 1820. The Town Hall (c) thenstood alone; and being in its turn found inconvenient, and in theway of carriages and other vehicles, was finally pulled down in1858, to the great improvement of the street. The other civil institutions of the town (as we have called them),viz., the pillory, stocks, and whipping-post, need no stood, at first, in the High Street, by each Town Hall inits turn. The last had not been used during the present century :but a woman was put in the stocks so late as 1837. The townjail, or blind-house as it was commonly called, stood, first in theHigh Street, by the Town Hall, and afterwards in New was a low stru<5ture, of coarse stone; but was removed, as outof date, about 1850; when the Police supplanted the old historicParish Constable. 28 Chapter vi. IN tracing out the past history of a town, the greatest assis-tance will naturally be derived from the books kept atcontemporary
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