Ducking Stool at the Daubholes

Summary

A tiny image of a crowd of little people who gather round a pond to watch a woman on a ducking stool operated by a man. In the foreground a woman appears to be restraining a man from attacking another woman: or perhaps they are comforting him together - the image is unclear, and it is hard to tell. The pool around which the crowd are pictured is 'The Daubholes', later called the Infirmary Pond. Apparently an old clay pit, the pool later became the centre of gardens outside Manchester's main hospital. In the twentieth century, after the infirmary was demolished in 1909-10, this area became Piccadilly Gardens.