These photos, plucked from the YEP archive, turn back the clock to the 1960s and showcase different aspects of life around the town during the decade including inside the liquorice factory which was busy putting together a 75,000lbs order of the sweet treat for Canada. READ MORE: 17 unseen photos of Wakefield in the 1960s YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Pontefract in the 1960s
Bitumen tankers lined up in the sidings at Baghill Station in 1966. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Pontefract in the 1960s
Blacksmith and sheet metal worker Edmund Ramskill at work in England's Yard, opposite Pontefract General Infirmary. Pictured in July 1966. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Pontefract in the 1960s
Thirty members of the Pontefract divisional fire service left the town in September 1966 to take part in what one of them described as ""the biggest exercise of it's kind ever staged in the Western hemisphere." Pictured, back from left, are leading fireman Maurice Church and leading fireman Cyril Stephens. Front, from left, are firewoman Linda Chambers, senior leading firewoman Daphne Tomkins and leading firewoman Jean Amesbury. | YPN
