Liquorice allsorts

It was the annual Liquorice festival in Pontefract today so we went along - it was a bit too warm really, and very busy but we passed a couple of hours taking it all in.

Pontefract is famous for it's liquorice, the following info is from Wikipedia:

Pontefract's deep, sandy soil makes it one of the few British places in which liquorice can successfully be grown. The town has a liquorice-sweet industry; and the famous Pontefract Cakes are produced, though the liquorice plant itself is no longer grown there. The town's two liquorice factories are owned by Haribo (formerly known as Dunhills) and Monkhill Confectionery (part of the Cadbury's Group - formerly known as Wilkinson's), respectively. A Liquorice Festival is held annually. Poet laureate Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem entitled "The Licorice Fields at Pontefract