How a neglected Yorkshire market town transformed itself into ‘Ponte Carlo’

It may have been one of the wettest weekends in March, but that wasn’t going to stop the Pomfretians. Dressed in their Sunday best, groups hunched determinedly under umbrellas between the bars of Ropergate. “They’re doing the Ropergate Run,” explained my friend Matthew, a Pontefract resident. “A lot of the old pubs are being replaced … Read more