Author Archives: Society Member

Talk: The History of Rowntrees

The History of Rowntrees – an online talk by Karen Adams. From Joseph Rowntree Sr, [...]

21
Feb
Talk: The Pontefract Murder by Eric Jackson

Online Talk – The story of the robbery and brutal murder, in 1918, of the [...]

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29
Jan
2021 Events Calendar

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17
Jan
Talk: Pontefract’s Broken Bridge

How Harry Battye and Eric Houlder identified the site of Pontefract’s eponymous ‘Broken Bridge’ In [...]

07
Jan
A Jolly Christmas gets pupils vote in civic society competition

Pontefract Civic Society is proud to announce that Jolly’s Café on Ropergate unanimously scoped 1st [...]

16
Dec
Press release. Open rail future, post Covid
6th September 2020

Opn-access-media-release-8-JUne-2020.docx Grant-Shapps-SoS-9-6-20-Open-access.docx [...]