Pontefract
About Pontefract
Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.
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The first ever secret ballot in the UK was in 1872, and the seal of the first ballot box was made with a liquorice stamp. There are famous liquorices in the UK called Pontefract liquorice — they're like black sweets and they have a stamp on them, which says Pontefract Liquorish and has a picture of Pontefract Castle.
from No Such Thing As Lord Cauldronhead, 2017-06-09 at 00:10:59 · read transcript
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According to free BMD, births and marriages and deaths, there were seven children registered with the name Sherlock between 1837, in 1887 when Conan Doyle first published the fictional detective. Between 1890 and 1920, there were 16 Sherlock's born, half of whom also had the surname Holmes. Families called Holmes seem to like having a son called Sherlock. One family in Pontefract had both a Sherlock and a Mycroft, the sons of Richard Holmes and Martha, nay, Belch. Fan worship isn't anything new. It goes on, but the last Sherlock Holmes was born in 1942. in Stoke.
No Such Thing As A Cursed Cage, 2025-03-27 · listen
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Coordinates: 53.6910, -1.3120