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Pontefract Museum

📍 PontefractWest Yorkshire

A museum or gallery near Pontefract.

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The Museum Originally this was one of the Carnegie Libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie the steel magnate; and what a gem it is. Built in 1905 in the Art Nouveau style by local architects Garside and P
The Museum Originally this was one of the Carnegie Libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie the steel magnate; and what a gem it is. Built in 1905 in the Art Nouveau style by local architects Garside and PPhoto: Stanley Walker · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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