This is the article I wish I could have written when I also wrote a brief post about Pontefract cakes a long time ago now!
This came up on my BBC travel feed and it gave me a sense of pride in my hometown to read this and see the mention of the history and the castle and even a shoutout for Farmer Copley's who I also namechecked albeit in a slightly more salubrious way!
Pontefract still thrives as a market town with a small town centre full of historical.....errr bookies and charity shops but that's ok. It's faring better than many other small northern towns.
This is for you @shanibeer if you can read bbc.com articles in England, it actually makes the place sound more important than it is, but its a nice advert for home nevertheless. Made me feel a little homesick when I read it!
(In the picture, there are my favourite sweets in the whole world, Black and White Mints and I could see of that whole jar! When I was a kid, at Christmas we used to go to the factory shop at Wilkinsons sweet factory and buy a 4 lb box of mis-shapes for pennies!! Those in the picture are £1.40 a quarter!!!! I don't like them that much!!)
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That's a wonderful story - I have always wondered about liquorice (like where did it come from). The Copleys' venture sounds good, especially the flavouring for gin, I bet that would be very popular. Do you remember those liquorice shoe laces? Hehe 😂
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Cakes? Lol... Aren't they mints or lollies?
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