Stan Walker's Pictures of Pontefract

The War Memorial in the Cornmarket. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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Pontefract, Remembrance

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The Town Hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire

Built in 1785.

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Pontefract, Town Halls

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The Museum. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

The building was in fact a Carnegie Library built around 1906 and used as such until a new library was built.

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Pontefract, Buildings and Structures

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The Market. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

Opened in 1860 by Lord Palmerston as the Meat Market was burnt down apart from the facade in the mid 1950's re-opened in 1957.

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Pontefract, Buildings and Structures, Post Boxes and Telephone Boxes

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The Market Place. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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Pontefract, Street Scenes

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The Crescent Cinema, Ropergate, Pontefract

Now no longer used as a cinema.

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Pontefract, Buildings and Structures

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The Courthouse. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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Pontefract, Buildings and Structures

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The Cornmarket. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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Pontefract, Street Scenes, West Yorkshire

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The Buttercross and St Giles. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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Pontefract, Buildings and Structures

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St Giles. Pontefract, West Yorkshire

Became the parish church of Pontefract in 1789.

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Pontefract, Churches

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Salter Row. Pontefract

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Pontefract

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Ropergate. Pontefract

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Pontefract

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All Saints, Pontefract

Dates mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries but badly damaged during the siege of Pontefract Castle in the civil War.

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Pontefract, Churches

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