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Pontefract, Friarwood Valley Gardens c.1960
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Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre. Before becoming a municipal park, these grounds were a nursery and market garden, whose business included the growing of liquorice plants.

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Memories of Pontefract, Friarwood Valley Gardens c1960

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Pontefract, Friarwood Valley Gardens c.1960

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We Did It
I claimed the walls in this picture in 1955 I was 10 years old two of us did it myself and best friend Goef Eastwood now deceased, sorry to say, we claimed it so far and we was so scared , we could not turn back so we had to go on and finish the climb, I still shake when I think what we did, great days, we went on to climb many more dangerous buildings.including the old Methodist church that was in Horse Fair,
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Paddleing In The Valley Gardens
i was born in pontefract , paradise gardens, when i married at button park i moved away to leicester, when i came to visit my mum , i would take my children to the valley gardens to picnic and paddle in the pool there .
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Added 18 February 2015

Happy Days
My mum and my nanna use to take my brother and me here alot in the mid 60s. We were very young. I was born in 1962 and my brother 1965. Happy days!
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Added 18 December 2012

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