Pontefract Dispensary and Hermitage story share (drop-in)

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/

You may also like the following events from Pontefract Museum:

• This Wednesday, 20th August, 10:30 am, Cabinet of Curiosities in Pontefract
• Next Wednesday, 27th August, 10:30 am, Cabinet of Curiosities in Pontefract
• Next month, 17th September, 10:00 am, Heritage Open Days drop-in: 120 years of Pontefract Museum in Pontefract

Also check out other Nonprofit events in Pontefract.