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The Horsefair flats are a complex of medium and high rise maisonettes and flats in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The scheme was approved in 1956 and designed by John Poulson. [1] The blocks were refurbished in 1999. [2]
The Hudson House is a historic First Period house in Oxford, Massachusetts. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The main facade is symmetrical. with a modern central entrance in the Georgian Revival style, with sidelights and pilasters at the sides, and an ...
William Richard Morfill (1834–1909), first Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages at Oxford, lived at number 42 and is commemorated by a blue plaque. [ 16 ] Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), Russian painter, spent the last six years of his life living with his daughter Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), chemist and poet, at no. 20. [ 17 ]
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley is a constituency [n 1] in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election .
Pontefract is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. In the town and surrounding area are 66 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eight are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Most of the ...
The Pontefract & Castleford Express is a local newspaper covering the towns of Pontefract and Castleford in Wakefield District, West Yorkshire, northern England. The newspaper is owned by National World. It is based in Front Street, Pontefract. The newspaper has a social media presence. [2] [3] The newspaper's content is summarised in the ...
Woodperry House. Woodperry House is a Grade I listed building in Stanton St John, South Oxfordshire, England.. Woodperry was built from 1728 (297 years ago) () for John Morse, a London goldsmith and partner in Child & Co. Morse owned a house in Woodstock at the entrance to Blenheim Palace that influenced the design, with the final Palladian style attributed to the Oxford architect William ...
Pontefract Town Hall is a town hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1882. It was completed in 1882. It is now owned and used by Wakefield Council as a registry office.