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Debra, 12, floating in swimming pool, Pontefract

Round Ones video game

Oral history recording; Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History; Peter Cookson; childhood; family life; sport; religion; changes in the community; Big Four; ethnic minorities; other industries; retirement activity; pre-war; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pontefract; Leeds; Bridlington; Ferrybridge; Bradford; Halifax; Castleford; Knottingley; Normanton; Featherstone; Wakefield; Doncaster; Goole; Sheffield; York; South Elmsall; Moorthorpe

Cookson, Peter

2006-03-07

Black and white photograph of a man hanging bunting across a street for VE Day, taken by an unknown photographer in a pit village near Pontefract, May 1944. Print made about 1990 from original wartime photograph.

Man Hanging Bunting in Street For VE Day

1945-05

Black and white photograph of a street party in front of an air raid shelter, taken by an unknown photographer in a pit village near Pontefract, about 1944. Print made about 1990 from original wartime photograph.

Street Party in Front of Air Raid Shelter

1943-1945

Black and white photograph of a man hanging bunting across a street for VE Day, taken by an unknown photographer in a pit village near Pontefract, May 1944. Print made about 1990 from original wartime photograph.

Man Hanging Bunting in Street For VE Day

1945-05

Visiting booth, constructed around a patio door by staff at Vicarage Court care home in Featherstone, Pontefract, in October 2020 and decorated and used by residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-2022

Visiting booth from Vicarage Court Care Home

2020