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Pontefract Years in Focus 1955

YEARS IN FOCUS
LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS OF THE 1950s

PONTEFRACT IN 1955

28th January 1955
Helpful

The current issue of the W.V.S. Bulletin gives two examples of the Women’s Voluntary Service. The first occurred when a letter addressed to the Y.W.C.A. at Pontefract, from a women in London, who wanted accommodation during a visit to look at the Parish Church register. The letter was delivered to the W.V.S., which informed her that there was a Y.W.C.A. at York, gave her the name of a Pontefract hotel and offered to help her in any way possible. A second letter was from a women in New Zealand who wished to trace her grandmothers birth from church records. This was arranged in the afternoon with the verger and she was taken to the church where the entry was traced. The women was delighted with the help she had received

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Years in Focus is researched by Maurice Haigh and reproduced with the kind permission of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

Pontefract news from the 1950's


 

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