Anyone from Pontefract? Where is this angel? (With artistic interpretation from dd)

[TheMatriarch]

Dd played rugby at Pontefract and saw an angel.
Where is it and what is it?
It’s really bugging us. We’ve googled but can’t find anything.

My guess is something connected to the Angel pub.

Hit post to soon - the Angel is in Ackworth so down the road from the rugby club.

Could she have seen the Knottingly war memorial? That has an angel on top but it's not wooden.

The food at the Angel is lovely

Oh and I was right about Carleton

I’ve shown her the screenshots, it’s not any of them.
I’m trying to get more detail, at the moment it’s limited to “it’s brown” and “it was in the distance”.
Does that help? (I’m guessing not!) Will quiz her and try to get some better detail.

Did she go through Knottingley?

Their war memorial is an angel

I used to live near Pontefract.

The knife angel? It was getting transported recently

I've asked my dad. If he can't pinpoint where it is then it doesn't exist

I'm near Ponte and don't recognise it.

I showed her the war memorial, she said no.

Will show her the knife angel and see what she says.

what direction was she coming from OP? Approximately?

She was at the rugby club when she saw it.

There’s no point asking her which direction, this is the girl who thought Whitby was abroad! She has no sense of direction whatsoever.

Had she been hit on the head with a rugby ball?

How close can you get to the rugby pitch on google earth?

It wasn’t a medal or anything in the rugby club was it? I can’t think of anything big enough to be seen in the distance from that spot?

could it have been this seen from an odd angle?

www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/20ft-war-horse-sculpture-rides-200-miles-to-featherstone-1-9131680

That’s in Featherstone though 🤔

“Had she been hit on the head with a rugby ball?”

It’s very possible!

That’s in Featherstone though 🤔

I know...but she must have seen something

I'm nowhere near Pontefract, but this thread has fascinated me. That knife angel looks fairly scary though!

it’s brown” and “it was in the distance” and she thought it was the Angel of the North

What route did they travel from your place to Pontefract and back? If it was something big and brown and angel-shaped in the distance, could it have in fact been the Angel of the North anyway?

She was at the rugby club when she saw it. Ah- apologies, missed this bit! Something advertising the Angel of the North, or an actual sculpture?

My dad had an idea about the local church but I grew up in the area and something has been niggling at me since I first read this....it just came to me that as a little kid I used to be able to see the water tower in the distance from all over the place and I always thought that looked like an angel

I don't know for sure but I bet you can see that from the rugby club, if it's the RUFC ground at Carleton that I'm thinking of.