For the local history section of my proposed Rhubarb Sketchbook animation, I can draw on a host of colourful characters:
- Puritan plotters at Middleton
- bodysnatchers at East Ardsley
- Prophet Wroe’s ‘temple’ at Kirkhamgate
- John of Gaunt’s Manor House at Rothwell
- Robin Hood (and his dad, Adam Hood, a forester) in the Outwood
- plus a commercial break: from Ossett, John ‘Imperial Leather’ Cussons’ ‘Compound Rhubarb Pills’ (just don’t OD on them!).
Just dropping a few frames into my storyboard, I realise that I could easily devote a whole cartoon to the life and adventures of Prophet Wroe.