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Community / Business / Culture Issue 3 COMMUNITY / BUSINESS / CULTURE Photo by Michael Hirst ISSUE 3 | APR 2019 FREE PONTEFRACT • 01977 600800 Pomfret Lodge, 2 Slutwell Lane, Pontefract. WF8 1SL www.kipmcgrath.co.uk/pontefract COMMUNITY Community News 4 Yorkshire Roses WI 6 Pontefract Civic Society 8 Pontefract & District Family 10 Issue #3 – April 2019 History Society 5000 copies printed Friends of Frairwood Valley 12 Next magazine copydate: 9th April 2019 Gardens Next magazine published: Friends of Pease Park 14 23rd April 2019 Pontefract junior parkrun 15 Submissions If you would like to contribute to the Pomfretian email hello@pomfretian. co.uk. We’re always delighted to hear HISTORY & HERITAGE from writers, photographers and anyone involved in a local group or The Pontefract & District 16 activity. Archaeological Society Advertise For more information on how to The Link Between Pontefract 18 advertise email hello@pomfretian. and Trafalgar Square co.uk or call 07936 860 215. The Day Cliff Richard Came to 20 Disclaimer Pomfretian is produced and To w n published by Love Local Ltd. The opinions expressed within the magazine are of the individual authors and not necessarily those EVENTS & CULTURE of the Pomfretian. While every effort has been made to ensure the What’s On? 22 accuracy of content, we accept no liability in respect of the content of any article, photo or advertisement. ©Love Local Ltd. All rights reserved. No reproduction or copying without permission. WWW.POMFRETIAN.CO.UK Pomfretian | 3 Community News Nifty at Fifty Tour de Yorkshire Crafts Local fl orist, Michelle Grainger, is celebrating her 50th in style, with plans to undertake 50 Pontefract Library, in association with fundraising challenges to raise £30,000 for the Pontefract Civic Society, invite residents Prince of Wales Hospice. Both Michelle and her to help decorate the town to celebrate sister Karen know from personal experience how the Tour de Yorkshire. invaluable the hospice is to patients with life- Riders will be passing through the limiting illnesses and have previously held raffl es, town on Friday 3 May during stage car boot sales, the annual Pont Dance and Festive two of the event from Barnsley to Florals events to raise funds. Bedale. The world’s top female riders Her ambitious schedule of events, challenges will come through the town in the and dares range from braving the fastest zip wire morning with the men following in the in the world to shaving her head and taking on afternoon. 25 punishing obstacles, as part of Total Warrior Craft workshops to create bunting 2019. In between her jam-packed schedule, £5 and decorations will be held every tea cup arrangements will continue to be on Wednesday in Pontefract Library sale at Michelle’s Flowers, Baghill Lane and raffl e between 1:30pm and 3:30pm from 13 donations will be gladly welcomed. March to 1 May. To fi nd out more about Michelle’s fundraising All materials and equipment will mission, visit her Just Giving page at be provided, but donations will be www.justgiving.com/fundraising/michellefi fty. gratefully received. 4 | Pomfretian COMMUNITY We love to hear from groups, organisations and individuals about what’s happening locally. Include a photo if you can. Email your stories to [email protected] Do you have something that is concerning you, but not sure where you can turn to? Castle Counselling offers a safe and confidential place to explore difficulties you may be experiencing in your personal, professional, family and student life. Take the first step... Contact Therese Hunter on 07908 572 731 www.castlecounselling.com Pontefract in Bloom Seeking Sponsors Pontefract in Bloom are currently seeking sponsorships from local businesses, community groups, individuals and families. for 2019 fl oral displays. Sponsorship opportunites include hanging baskets for business premises, 9 square planters and 13 3-tier planters. Planters will be fully planted for the summer in late May/early June and replanted in October for winter and spring, ensuring year-round. colour. Sponsors’ names will be displayed “Fantastic value home cooked meals, on the planters and publicised on social freshly prepared from only the finest media. Prices include planting, maintenance, local ingredients available” watering services and sponsor plaque for the whole year. 01977 702 702 For more information, please contact [email protected] or text www.cromwellstearooms.co.uk 07876234054. 1 Mauds Yard, Pontefract, WF8 1AQ COMMUNITY Pomfretian | 5 Yorkshire Roses Women’s Institute Comes to Carleton by Autumn Hall ith Spring on its way, it’s time to shake off those winter doldrums, get out and about, makeW new friends and do something different! This is great timing as a new WI has formed in Carleton, Yorkshire Roses WI. causes to enjoying entertaining and In an effort to merge traditional WI educational speakers and everything in interests and pursuits with a modern between, the WI has something for every approach and fun, educational and engaging woman! On a regional and national level, activities we will look to our members for there are numerous classes, workshops and inspiration. With plans for a very active events you can participate in as well as help WI in which all members are involved in advocate for change on issues that affect us the programme planning and execution. all as women, throughout the country and Yorkshire Roses will strive to give back to the planet. the community, pair with various groups Visitors and new members are always in the area to tackle issues close to home welcome! We meet on the 2nd Monday and support the resolutions of the National of each month at 7:00 p.m. at The Grange, Federation of WIs. We’ll be hosting engaging Carleton Community Centre, Carleton speakers, doing fun (but easy!) crafts, going Road. A visitor’s fee of £5 includes tea/coffee on day trips, participating in craft fairs and and cake and a raffle ticket. fundraising, helping to beautify Pontefract, For more information, please email: reaching out to a local care home, holding [email protected] or ring: competitions as well as forwarding the WIs 07483 254253. You can also visit the WI at initiatives in tackling plastic waste, loneliness www.thewi.org.uk for more information among the elderly and period poverty – about the organisation as a whole, our and, of course, eating cake! resolutions for this year and the causes we From crafting to participating in the support to increase public awareness and community to campaigning for various policy change in the UK. 6 | Pomfretian COMMUNITY LIKE ME? FOLD ME! BUSINESS IN FOCUS KLH Events aren Haddock and Lynne Hartley, two to book stallholders from the local area local crafters, remember with a fondness and hope to support local crafters, small how Pontefract Town Hall used to be a businesses and charities, with at least one stall Kregular venue for craft fairs. With a desire to being given to a charity free of charge as an put something back into their community, the opportunity to fundraise or raise awareness pair have established a new business venture, of their organisation. KLH Events, in order to bring that buzzing By drawing on their own experiences and atmosphere back for the next generation to reflecting on past events, their hope is to enjoy as much as they did. ensure that every fair is a pleasant experience Lynne, a self-taught costume jewellery for stallholders and visitors alike. With this maker, and Karen, a keen baker, have been in mind, they made the decision to have no attending craft fairs as stall holders together duplicate ranges on stalls, and have trawled for a number of years. However, their social media sites looking for variety. talents as events organisers were noticed in “Our selection includes a glass painter, 2016, when they were asked to organise a handcrafted bath products, a chocolatier, vintage Christmas fair for the British Polio Fellowship. homewares, beauty products, handcrafted The event proved a huge success and they handbags, a wood turner, a metal artist, a spent the following year doing further watercolour artist, a baker, handcrafted jewellery, research at various craft events, drawing from and children’s books to name a few!” the positive and negative experiences and KLH Events have four upcoming events researching possible venues. organised at Pontefract Town Hall (30 March, “We like to think we are a team with a 8 June, 26 October, and 30 November) and difference, our focus is on what we can bring an additional four events to be held at the to the community, rather than taking from it. Thornycroft Centre (14 April, 14 July, 22 When we were first developing our company, September and 8 December). Their hope is to we decided that the choice of location was bring them back as a monthly event and have important. We chose Pontefract because it has a already been approached by other venues! fantastic history and heritage and, as locals, we A Pontefract Information Pack will be know that the rejuvenation of the town centre is handed out at the above events free of paramount and anything we can do to help has charge and KLH Events welcome any to be beneficial.” local businesses who wish to include their This focus on supporting the local literature. For more information, visit community has meant that they have tried www.facebook.com/klhevents. Pomfretian | 7 Pontefract Civic Society by Paul Cartwright ontefract’s first blue plaque to a explore the story through poetry, art, prose woman was recently unveiled in the and storytelling. The story that is the life of Nelson Room at Pontefract Town Elizabeth Moxon (nee Hestleton) can be PHall, in front of fifty specially invited guests traced back to 1640, when her grandfather from project partners, like-minded local first rented a burgage plot off Finkle Street organisations, and the Moxon Society.
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