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Please refer me to another site if this has been asked previously. I was watching "Bargain Hunt" at dinnertime and that Tim Wotsisname was at Brodsworth Hall showing the billiards/smoke room. In a corner of the room was a jockeys weighing-in scale. I don't know if it was the gleaming brass and plush red colour that stirred my memory but I immediatly remembered the one that was in Kirkgate Market years ago. It was operated by a jockey size bloke who wore racing silks and riding boots. You gave him the money and he would estimate your weight before you sat on the seat. I can't remember if you got your money back if he was wrong but he was there a lot of years so he must have been right most of the time. I think you will have to be over and above a certain age to remember him.

Johnny39 wrote: Please refer me to another site if this has been asked previously. I was watching "Bargain Hunt" at dinnertime and that Tim Wotsisname was at Brodsworth Hall showing the billiards/smoke room. In a corner of the room was a jockeys weighing-in scale. I don't know if it was the gleaming brass and plush red colour that stirred my memory but I immediatly remembered the one that was in Kirkgate Market years ago. It was operated by a jockey size bloke who wore racing silks and riding boots. You gave him the money and he would estimate your weight before you sat on the seat. I can't remember if you got your money back if he was wrong but he was there a lot of years so he must have been right most of the time. I think you will have to be over and above a certain age to remember him. I don't remember one on Leeds Market but I remember one on the front at Scarborough who used to do this.