Quite right Geoff!
Pontefract Castle has just been featured on The BBC's Regional News Programme tonight. It was demolished by act of Parliament at the request of the Local People. The cost of Demolition cost was £750. Quite cheap considering that Pontefract Castle was a very substantial building.

What did not get mentioned was the reasons why the Local Population wanted rid of it! Well the reason was that every time the castle received reinforcements if it was due to come under attack. The garrison would send out men to commander all the beds from the surrounding area for the extra troops to sleep on. This on one occasion proved to be there down fall as when the opposition gained access to the Castle by pretending to be delivering extra Beds. Imagin no Duckling Beds! However it was not just the Bed situation that made the locals feed up with the castle but the inaccuracy of the Cannon Balls fire at the castle. Sick to the back teeth of having their windows and doors blow out they demanded compensation. The compensation that they received was the stone demolished from the Castle. The dungeon was used as a Liquorice store for many years and would today be a good place to keep a Bush. But as you nearly PONTED out Geoff it takes ALLSORTS to make a world.