EPW036846 ENGLAND (1931). Rhodes Street, Gibbet Street and environs, Halifax, 1931

The Gibbet [replica] is here Almost 100 people were beheaded in Halifax between the first recorded execution in 1286 and the last in 1650, but as the date of the gibbet's installation is uncertain, it cannot be determined with any accuracy how many were dealt with by the Halifax Gibbet. By 1650 public opinion considered beheading to be an excessively severe punishment for petty theft; use of the gibbet was forbidden by Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, and the structure was dismantled. The stone base was rediscovered and preserved in about 1840, and a non-working replica was erected on the site in 1974. The names of 52 people known to have been beheaded by the device are listed on a nearby plaque.

Rhodes Street Methodist Church & Sunday School.

Martin's Mill. Now derelict (2013) but still standing. In 1961 this was the original home of the Plebians Jazz Club and the classic American bluesmen Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee played there.

Corner shop,where the lady had the only television in the area. About 10 or 15 of us local kids were invited to sit in a semi circle around the tv to watch the Coronation,it was exiting for about 10 mins,then became boring so many of us returned to the street to carry on playing.

Outside toilet block,Back Rhodes Street.

St Marys infant school

St Marys school and play grounds

St Marys catholic church