Pub’s hanging name
I AM happy to help Joyce McDougald with her query about the name of the Rook and Gaskill pub (Letters, March 21).
Rook and Gaskill were sheep rustlers, who on May 1, 1776, became the final two men hanged at the St Leonard’s Gallows in York.
The pub was previously the Queen’s Head but gained the new name in 2002 when it was re-opened by York Brewery, continuing the theme of its first two pubs, The Last Drop Inn and The Three Legged Mare.
Gavin Aitchison Pub columnist, The Press
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