Photography collection

Looking south east from the top of the keep, over the Curtain Wall and the thatched predecessor to the 'Veteran's Shelter'. The visitor [a Carter from the Knottingley brewery] is wearing a dress which places the photo in the 1890s. Is that a croquet set on the lawn?

Launching a boat at Harker's, in Knottingley. One of a series of photographs of the Aire and Calder Navigation.

A display of glass made by Bagley Brothers of Knottingley, in Wakefield Museum.

This press photograph shows Knottingley miners marching from Ferrybridge to Knottingley in memory of the picket Joe Green, on 19th June 1986. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

This press photograph shows Arthur Scargill at the head of a miners' march through Knottingley. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

Tom Taylor, butcher on Aire Street, Knottingley, at the June Fair on The Flatts, Aire Street, Knottingley. The fair was owned by 'Doubtfires'.

Queuing for the Knottingley bus in 1993.

Synthetic Chemicals' factory in Knottingley. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

Castleford Railway Station with a Knottingley train ready to depart. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

Cawood Hargreaves tug pushing three coal pans on the Aire and Calder canal at Knottingley, probably in the 1980s.

St. Botolph's Church, Knottingley, interior.

Knottingley Road viaduct, Pontefract.

Aerial view of W. R. Wilkinson & Co Ltd factory, Pontefract, with Ferrybridge Road and Knottingley Road running either side of the site.

Knottingley Angling Society, winners of the 1907 Pontefract and District Fishing Competition Coronation Cup.

Class V at Knottingley Wesleyan School.

Bubwith House, Knottingley Road, in a photograph of a painting.

Knottingley Salvation Army Young People's Band. They are posing by the Salvation Army building on land between Weeland Road and Lamb Inn Road.

Bubwith Farm on Stumpcross Lane, off of Knottingley Road. On the left is an ornate stench pipe, providing ventilation to the underground sewers.

Knottingley Road and Box Lane, Pontefract.

Floods on Bondgate in 1933. This area still floods today.

Pontefract postcard, showing All Saint's Church, Knottingley Road, the Castle, Cornmarket and Beastfair.

Opening of the workers recreation centre at Bagleys glassworks, Knottingley.

Opening of the workers recreation centre at Bagleys glassworks, Knottingley.

Opening of the workers recreation centre at Bagleys glassworks, Knottingley.