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Pontefract and its Castle. - Life in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. A potted History of the Castle and links to relevant sites.
Darrington - Information for visitors and residents about the village. Includes a summary of events, a plan of the village, and photographs.
Pontefract Camera Club - Enjoying and supporting photography since 1920. Information on club and their activities, and club galleries.
Pontefract and Castleford Express - Local news, sports, features, weather, and classified advertising. Also a comprehensive directory of local companies with over 3000 entries.
Pontefract and District Family History Society - Resources for family history and genealogy in Pontefract and surrounding parishes, including a list of publications, searches offered, and membership information.
Pontefract Museum - Programme of exhibitions, with contact details and visitor information.
Pontefract Castle - A virtual tour of this historical site.
Rogerthorpe Manor - Jacobean country house converted to a hotel, handy for M62 and A1. Information on accommodation, restaurant and bar, and facilities for functions and conferences. On-line booking and contact details.
Pontefract Slot Car Club - Information on the hobby, and meetings of the group. Race calendar, and photo gallery.
Wentbridge House Hotel - Georgian building in 20 acres of garden and grounds near the A1. Information on accommodation, restaurant, and facilities for corporate functions and weddings. Contact details.
The Parkside International Hotel - A converted farmhouse in Pontefract, close to the A1, M1, and M62. Information on accommodation, cuisine, tariff, and local interest.
The Prince Of Wales Hospice - Pontefract - Information about day-care and in-patient services for people with cancer and other life threatening illnesses, volunteer opportunities, fundraising, and contact details.
Pontefract & District Fur Fanciers Society - Dedicated to the breeders and exhibitors of rabbits. Information, news and details of events, photos and links.
Pontefract-Online - An online resource for visitors and residents of Pontefract. Includes events, businesses, and places to visit.
The Glamned - A 5-piece 1970's Glam Rock tribute band. Includes photos, profiles, song list, and gig dates.
King's Croft - Hotel in Pontefract. Information about accommodation, facilities for conferences and weddings, and events.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Pontefract The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Pontefract "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Pontefract A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Pontefract I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Pontefract It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Pontefract There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Pontefract Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Pontefract Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Pontefract The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Pontefract Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Pontefract "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Pontefract Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Pontefract "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Pontefract "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Pontefract I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Pontefract When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Pontefract Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Pontefract Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Pontefract Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Pontefract Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Pontefract The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Pontefract
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