Yes, Pontefract used to have its own cinema: "The Crescent", on the corner of Ropergate and Jubilee Way - except that Jubilee Way did not exist then! Now it's a place to play snooker. I think that it closed down as a cinema in the seventies, and after that was a bingo hall for a while. There was a dance hall also, which I think has been closed down. Here you can still see parts of the beautiful original facades.