Blue Plaques Wakefield

                                                                                                            Forgotten Women Display at Wakefield Library & Museum, Wakefield One.                                                                                        7th December 2021      

 

The Royal Mail Sorting Office occupies the site of the old Cattle Market in George Street /Ings Road                                                                                                                        Wakefield Civic Society Blue Plaque in situ on front of building.

Walton Parish Council 1989 WALTON Home of Charles (Squire) Waterton 1782 - 1865 Renowned as a Naturalist, Taxidermist & Originator of Nature sanctuaries              The remains of a castellated house in the grounds of Squire Charles Waterton's land where later Waterton Hall was built.                                                                                                                                                                        Squire Charles Waterton 3rd June 1782 - 27th May 1865         ...

                                                                                    

Wakefield Civic Society Records The West Riding house of Correction (Prison) opened on this site in 1606. It came under government management in 1876. 2005