When is the liquorice festival at pontefract

Can you help me get in contact with the exhibitors and producers? Many thanks…. Hi Rostam, Great to hear from you! Your email address will not be published. I agree. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. This site aims to list the wide variety of traditional and unusual events that take place each year in the UK and to help visitors take part in them.

Each event has its own page giving details of its timing and location, as well as a very brief history and notes on what to expect. Click here to find out more about this site. Pontefract Liquorice Festival. Where: Pontefract, Yorkshire at the Precinct When: 2nd Sunday in July or Sunday of second weekend in the month Time: 11am-4pm The centre of the British liquorice industry was Pontefract remember those little black sweeties called Pontefract or Pomfret Cakes? Helpful Hints date is yet to be announced- likely to be Sunday 10th.

Posted October 14, at PM. Posted October 15, at AM. Posted July 26, at PM. Posted July 27, at AM. There are also plenty of fun family activities to enjoy including face painting, liquorice pet making workshops, reptile encounters, funfair rides, sand art, a climbing wall, and movie cars including the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 car and a Batmobile.

There is also a selection of hot street food to enjoy, with many vendors offering meals with a liquorice twist! There will also be singing performances and dance aerobics workshops on the bandstand, along with food vendors. Visitors can travel between the town centre and Pontefract Castle by hopping aboard the Liquorice Land Train. The Land Train will be travelling between the castle and the Town Hall every 15 minutes, from 10am to 4pm.

It could be the castle, the races or — for the vast majority of people — Pontefract Cakes, small black medallions of liquorice sweetness. These days we think of liquorice as a treat but originally the woody roots were used in herbal remedies to cure anything from asthma to toothache. Pontefract association with the liquorice industry goes back centuries — the legend is that the crusaders brought back the plant from the Holy Land and it flourished in the rich loamy soil of the area.

But it was not until that George Dunhill, a Pontefract based chemist, thought of adding sugar to make the liquorice taste sweet. Following his breakthrough Dunhill set up a factory which is still in operation today although it is now owned by the German company Haribo.

The poet John Betjeman even felt inspired to write a poem praising the sweets and the sturdy lasses who made them.