PONTEFRACT
Origins, History and Development
Relating
the origins, history and development of the West Yorkshire market town of
Pontefract in a collection of articles and reference works submitted by
visitors to our website and from studies compiled by local historians
and enthusiasts and which are reproduced here with their permission.
INDEX TO ARTICLES
John Poulson and Pontefract
Town Centre - Dave Barry
Disaster at Darrington
18th September 1943 - Brian Lunn
A Lark Rising - David Loynes
Pontefract King's School Song - Peter Cookson
Pontefract
King's School Song - Words by Frank Forrest
Destruction at Darrington September 1943 - Unknown author
Pontefract
King's School Magazine 1922
Willow Park Dog Track - Terry Spencer
A Fine Building -
Municipal Offices - Pontefract Advertiser 6 August 1932
Floods In Pontefract 1932
- Pontefract Advertiser 28th May 1932
The New King's
School, Pontefract - Opening Ceremony - Pontefract Advertiser 16th
July 1932
The New King's
School, Pontefract - Summary of History - Pontefract Advertiser 16th
July 1932
Monkhill
Boys Lost in Sand Quarries - Pontefract Advertiser 12th May 1923
Big Fire in
Pontefract - 26th May 1923
Destructive
Conflagration in Pontefract - 6th November 1920
Pontefract Garage
Completely Gutted - Pontefract Advertiser, 22nd September 1923
Unveiling of Pontefract
War Memorial - Pontefract Advertiser, 29th September 1923
Pontefract
Colleries Football Club - Rod Naylor
Darrington Hotel - Origin and Early History - Terry Spencer
Tribute to the Life of Artist David Gluck - From material submitted
by his cousin, Valerie Heaps
When Charles the
First Was King - Roger Ellis
Mayors of Pontefract 1884-1973 - John O.E. Holmes
Pontefract Mayors Electoral System -
John O.E. Holmes
The
Dead Man's Penny - David T. Loynes
In
Memory of Matthew George Killingbeck - Mrs Audrey Milner
Pontefract
Sessions House - Eric Jackson
The
Vulcan Club: RAFA Pontefract Branch - Mr. H.B. Robinson & Mr.
D.G. Clee
Private
Arthur Houlder 30980 - David T. Loynes
A Very Gallant Gentleman: Captain Percy Bentley M.C. - Terry Spencer
The Barnbow Lasses - Eric Jackson
Normanton, Castleford
and Pontefract Tramways - Peter Cookson
From Boys to Men in
First Aid Skills - John Hargrave (Pontefract & Castleford
Express)
Reports from
Pontefract Courts - Eric Jackson
A Pontefract
Battalion - Eric Jackson
The Names
of the Fallen in the Great War - Eric Jackson
Carleton
Community Centre - Realising a High Ambition - M Haigh
The Bombing of
Pontefract 1942 - Frank H.W. Holmes
The Prince of Wales
Hospice in Pontefract Part Four - Oliver Walker
Pontefract's Forgotten Man,
T. J Sides - Part One - Terry Spencer
Pontefract's
Forgotten Man, T. J Sides - Part Two - Terry Spencer
The Prince of Wales
Hospice in Pontefract Part Three - Oliver Walker
Pontefract Castle
Described by Richard Holmes
The Night the Zeppelins
Bombed Pontefract - Ted Brook
Pontefract Cinema's and
Theatre - Norman Blackburn
Bradburn's Ice Cream
Business - Stan Briggs
The Prince of Wales
Hospice in Pontefract Part Two - Oliver Walker
Pontefract Mill
Hill Sand Tunnels - John Holmes
The Prince of Wales
Hospice in Pontefract Part One - Oliver Walker
A Famous Death in the Town
Hall
Gilbert Gingell Awarded
B.E.M. 1943 - Maurice Haigh
Pontefract Brochure
for the 500th Mayoral Year in 1970
Milestone Memories -
Eric Houlder
Priming the Town Pump
- Terry Spencer
Pontefract
Elections - John O.E. Holmes
Pontefract and its
Manors Page Three - The New Hall - John O.E. Holmes
Pontefract and its
Manors Page Two - John O.E. Holmes
Pontefract and its
Manors Page One - John O.E. Holmes
Hope and Anchor Inn,
Pontefract - Terry Spencer
Pontefract Carnegie Free
Library
Pontefract Castle described in
1832
Origins and History of
Pontefract Buttercross
Search for the Broken Bridge
- Eric Houlder
Domesday Pontefract - Eric
Houlder
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