I spent Sunday afternoon in the town of Pontefract, famous for its association with the liquorice plant and its annual Liquorice Festival. It is thought that a member of the land owning De Lacy family may have brought back a liquorice plant from the crusades. The family were the builders of nearby Pontefract Castle and owned land across the north of England, including Bradford, so you could say there is a somewhat tenuous link between Bradford and Pontefract. The picture shows one of the street entertainers at the festival.
I tried playing the trombone once and ended up pulling a very similar face - though without recognisably musical results.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant to learn they are keeping the tradition alive - there used to be over two dozen confectioners in the town but by the 1970s it was down to two - by then the liquorice was imported from China. It's over 40 years ago that I worked at Dunhills - where did time go?
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