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The Gibbet Street branch of the Halifax Industrial Society Ltd. (the local Co-op). This is the large building on the left in the attached photo. The wall of Lister Lane Cemetery can also be seen just beyond the Co-op.
On the right are the streets of West Hill Park, John Crossley's model housing scheme.
Gibbet Street took its name from the local 'gibbet', a guillotine which executed local felons. This stood about half a mile from this point, closer to Halifax Town Centre. The local gibbet had executed criminals since 1280 and in fact Dr. Joseph Guillotine visited Halifax while researching a method of official punishment during the French Revolution.b The last local executions took place on April 30th 1650. The original gibbet mound still stands (2013) and a replica gibbet has been constructed on it. '