Sue says: ‘Here’s a photo of the Wishing Tree in Wombwell Park. Many Wombwell children have stepped between the trunks and made a wish.’ This image appears on the cover of a collection of poems called Memories of Wombwell by Sue Riley.
by Sue Riley, 2020 a poem from Memories of Wombwell by Sue Riley of Wombwell Heritage Group.
from Wombwell Cemetery Sonnets by Paul Brookes Alfred Edward Flaxman (1 October 1879 – 1 July 1916) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire and was killed in action in Gommecourt, Pas-de-Calais, France.
