They turn back the clock to 1998, a year in which two local political stalwarts celebrated romance and love in the town close to their hearts. The photo is one of 26 celebrating the 12 months using images plucked from the YEP archive. Pubs, shops, nightclubs and restaurants are all in focus as well as fundraising, local sport and health. Spotted anyone you remember? READ MORE: 32 picture perfect photos take you back to Pontefract in 1996 YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of nostalgia
7. Pontefract in 1998
November 1998 and Prince of Wales Hospice day care patients Flo Wilson, left, and Gladys Peake, right, with day care leader Maggie McAndrew, sign a card that they helped to make for the Prince of Wales's 50th birthday. | Matt Griggs/unp Photo: Matt Griggs/unp
8. .Pontefract in 1998
Sisters Rita Wilson, left and Fredaricka Durkin, right who are from Yorkshire married their partners John Waterson, left and Ian West, right, who are from Lancashire in Pontefract. The wedding theme was red and white roses. Pictured in October 1998. | James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty
9. Pontefract in 1998
"Anybody there we know?" The Rt Rev. David James, Bishop of Pontefract and ten-year-olds Lee Sadler and Emma Ward, take a close look at the Streethouse Working Mens' Club mural. Pictured in November 1998. | Keith Lawson Photo: Keith Lawson
10. Pontefract in 1998
Limo driver Russ Tate from Pontefract pictured in November 1998. | Mark Bickerdike Photo: Mark Bickerdike
11. Pontefract in 1998
Pontefract Town Cryer David Walters with, from left, JUdith Walker, Pontefract Library Librarian, Madelaine Jackson, chairman of the Pontefract Library Readers Group, and Fiona Edwards, Reader in Residence in November 1998. | Steve Riding Photo: Steve Riding
12. Pontefract in 1998
Kind hearted postmen in Pontefract delivered an early Christmas gift to the children's ward at Pontefract General Hospital in December 1998. | Gary Longbottom Photo: Gary Longbottom