Excuse the randomness. We've got some great statues in town, and the miners child has been put back on Midland Street. But it's just struck me, that we don't have Brian Glover (Would go well next to the Kez statue) or Harry Worth. I really think Harry Worth is a forgotten son of Barnsley, and it would be a really nice for us to have a statue of him (maybe lifting his leg and arm in a shop window*). Thoughts? I believe he had a blue plaque but that's about it. I did think about old Arthur Scargill^ and even Geoffrey Boycott, but those two individuals may split opinion (even if one day we'll all look back and say the guy was right all along). Then there's Parkinson? Ian McMillan, Sean Dooley and Katherine Kelly (all too young?) * Some people have catchphrases, Harry had a signature move ** I know I mentioned Arthur, please lets not go political on this thread.
Ian McMillan was in my year at Wath Grammar School, but he wasn't in my group of mates and I honestly have no memory of him whatsoever. I'd still have a pint with him though.
