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Pontefract historic photo display
One of Pontefract's richest families are featured at a new free exhibition at the town's museum.
The Robsons at Home is billed as a stunning new photographic exhibition featuring the Robsons, owners of the largest malting business in
Pontefract at the end of the 1800s.
Susannah Robson photographed the family home Northumberland House on Salter Row.
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The album, acquired by Wakefield Council last year, reveals what the home looked like inside and out and show some of the people who lived and worked there.
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The photographs show a house filled with sumptuous furniture and expensive ornaments, and a garden which stretched all the way back to the other side of where Morrison's car park is today.
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There were trellis walks, tennis lawns, sweeping lawns and ornamental fountains.
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In the early 1900s the family built two almshouses for people too old or ill to work, and they funded an operating theatre at Pontefract Hospital.
Wakefield Council's cabinet member with responsibility for culture, Coun Denise Jeffery said: "The Robsons are a very important part of Pontefract's local heritage. This wonderful new exhibition is a dazzling look behind the scenes and visitors will have the chance to reflect on how much the town has changed."
The Robsons at Home is at Pontefract Museum from now until May 8.
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