Pontefract Dispensary and Hermitage story share (drop-in)

Name: Pontefract Dispensary and Hermitage story share (drop-in)
Start: 2025-09-20T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T14:30:00+01:00
Location: Pontefract Museum

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 11:00 am to 02:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Pontefract Museum | Pontefract, EN

Drop in to Pontefract Museum to share your stories and memories of Pontefract Hermitage and Dispensary. Join the launch of an exciting new digital project by One To One Development Trust, working with Pontefract Civic Society and Pontefract Heritage Partnership. Part of Heritage Open Days 2025.
Pontefract Dispensary was opened in 1880. Over the next century it served the people of Pontefract as a hospital, later part of Pontefract General Infirmary. It was bult in the garden of a 14th century hermitage, with the hermitage itself preserved underneath the new building. The Dispensary closed in 2011.
Did you work at the Dispensary, or were you a patient there? Did you ever visit the hermitage? We would love to hear your stories, and see any photographs you might have, to help us create a new digital experience to celebrate and share this important and unique part of Pontefract’s heritage.
Part of the Our Heritage, Our Stories project with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
https://experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/pontefract-dispensary-and-hermitage-digital-project-launch-story-share/