On my week as a tourist showing my good friend Bridget from Saint Paul, Mn around Yorkshire we stopped off in Settle a small market town in North Yorkshire. As we drove through the town she exclaimed "theres a cafe called the naked man!" yes I said and it has been here as long as I can remember.
There is a date stone in the wall of Ye Olde Naked Man Cafe building with the date 1663 as can be seen in the picture above.
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The name is certainly an attention getter!
ReplyDeleteI hope you get a discount at the cafe if you arrive naked. That is before the police take you away.
ReplyDeleteHe's been naked for a very longtime!
ReplyDeleteHow very funny! I would LOVE to know how it came to be called that! I am about to see if I can look it up. Oh, it sounds like y'all had the best time going around and exploring things!
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious! Wonder how it started. Too funny.
ReplyDeleteI've just been to Settle and was intrigued by the "naked man" image on the cafe wall. It bears a strong resemblance to a Gibbeted body, a punishment carried on until 1832 by which a criminal was executed and his body was displayed hung in a close fitting metal cage in some promenant position Look up william Jobling last man gibbeted.
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