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Picture source: Pontefract Heritage Group

.The Blue Bell was situated on Valley Road. Dating back to 1821 this pub was formerly in a yard off Ropergate. It underwent two name changes in the 1990s, Sports, then Ye Olde Highwayman.

Reopened c2020.

Neil Harrison (August 2022)

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Name	Dates	Comments
Frieda Walker	1954	I lived there as a child, the new Blue Bell was built round us as we lived in the old Blue Bell. I think I was about 8years old then. Dad used to book a turn for Saturday night.