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Wakefield Corn Exchange
Wakefield Corn Exchange in the early 1960s. It was demolished in 1963 Wakefield Corn Exchange in the 1940s. At that time it was an integral part of the top of Westgate. Sadly the oldest and most iconic of the buildings in Westgate not to still be gracing Wakefield City Centre. What a jewel was lost when it didn't achieve listed building status.
David Storey
David Malcolm Storey was an English Playwright, Screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. The film of his novel This Sporting Life, which won the MacMillan Fiction Award, was filmed in and around Wakefield and starred Richard Harris. Born: 13th July 1933, Wakefield Died: 27th March 2017, London Spouse: Barbara Hamilton (m. 1956-2015) Children: Helen Storey, Kate Storey
Mary Frances Heaton
Tower before the plaque was fitted Forgotten Women Display at Wakefield Library & Museum, Wakefield One. 7th December 2021
Noel Gay
Wakefield Civic Society Noel Gay (1898-1954), Lyricist and Popular-Song writer and composer of the "Lambeth Walk" was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral in his teenage years 2005 Noel Gay, born Reginald Moxon Armitage in Outwood. When he enlisted in the Army on July 28th 1916 he gave as his next of kin his father Harry Armitage, a Coal Factor and his address as 39 Jacob's Well Lane.
Sandal Village Pump
Sandal Village pump of 1846 Was refurbished in 2001 with the help of the Wakefield South Ward Councillors and Wakefield historical society
