Christopher Townsend tells how a drive home from the seaside – and a few scarecrows – inspired the first Brampton Potteries Festival nearly a decade ago.
ONE EVENING ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, my wife and I left Scarborough, cloaked under a cold blanket of sea fret, and drove into bright evening sunshine near the village of Wetwang. Yes that’s right – Wetwang – the place in East Yorkshire where Paul Hudson, the BBC weatherman of ‘Look North’ fame, is Honorary Mayor. The attraction on that glorious summer’s evening was an entertaining Scarecrow Festival…