by Colin White | Apr 27, 2021 | Uncategorised
It was January 2013 when we first got together as an action group and at times it does feel like we aren’t getting anywhere. There’s been a lot of meetings with the owners of the Dispensary, the Mid Yorkshire Trust (MYT), the NHS organisation that runs the...
by Colin White | Apr 27, 2021 | Uncategorised
Pontefract had one industry it could call its own, and that was liquorice. It was probably brought here by monks from Spain, which may explain the local name for liquorice: “Spanish”. There were two religious houses in Pontefract in medieval times: St John’s Priory, a...
