Articles
This page has links to a small number of articles written about places and people with links to the Pontefract area. Some of the articles here have appeared in The Bridge, some were written for the website. If you have ideas for future articles, we would love to receive them.
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Memories
of Brotherton: the Scarecrow A personal recollection from the 1920s by Robert Milner |
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Researching 'burnt' documents
at the National Archives Richard Senior describes how to use records on soldiers from World War I using examples from local families |
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Wragby A piece by Gill Briscoe on the churchyard at Wragby and its associations with Nostel Priory |
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Albert Wilcock,
Cinema Pioneer in Pontefract Richard Senior records Albert Wilcock's work in setting up a cinema in Pontefract in the 1930s |
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Who
made the cakes? Gill Briscoe explores Pontefract liquorice and the families involved in the town's sweet-making industry |
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Dade
Registers Kathryn Senior describes the extra information that can be found in some parish registers |
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Kellington
Church Richard Lockwood gives a brief history of Kellington Church |
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Plum Pudding aboard the Edwin Fox Richard Senior traces one line of his Wilcock ancestors who sailed to New Zealand using the diaries of one of their fellow travellers |
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