A Very Cold Bottom!! 1973/4

A Memory of Pontefract.

I was born in Pontefract. Christened and Married, as were my parents, in All Saints Church in Pontefract by the Reverand Fawkes, now diseased.
I went to Chequerfield infants then Willow park junior school and Pontefract and district Girls High school( the brown knicker school) I would catch a bus into town, strangely enough from the very bus stop I live directly next to now,and then walk up to England's. I remember sitting on the stone windowsill with my back to the huge glass window to wait for the next bus to come which would take me to the Parkside and High school. England's was a hardware shop - nut and bolts etc. If you could see under the upvc now covering and protecting those stone sills , where I remember getting a very cold bottom, the name will still be there. As it is now you will be looking at WHSmith facing the buttercross. In the days before pedestrianisation the bus came straight up from the bus station doing a slight left past The Town Hall and up towards the Market place passing the Market hall to my bus stop opposite The Buttercross outside England's hardware and ironmongers. Then a right turn down Beastfair and on towards Pontefract Park.