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  • Pontefract Civic Society Monthly Talk – Model Villages by Eric Jackson

    Pontefract Town Hall 3 Bridge Street, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Our speaker for the evening Eric Jackson details the transformation of England from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one with the concomitant population growth of towns and cities, picking apart the advantages, disadvantages and the history of the project, including the infrastructure required for the logistics of such an undertaking and the…

  • Pontefract Civic Society Monthly Talk – Friends of Waterton Wall

    Pontefract Town Hall 3 Bridge Street, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Friends of Waterton Wall Barbara Phipps lives in Walton, near Wakefield and has studied the life and work of Charles Waterton for many years. Her book, Charles Waterton, Creator of the First Nature Reserve, was published in 2019. She gives talks and leads walks around Walton Hall parkland. Starting with a short history of the…

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