Wild Yorkshire notes that 2024 is the Baring-Gould Centenary year…

In 2024, the Baring-Gould Centenary year, we’re celebrating – in artwork and animation – his work inspired by the time he spent as a young curate in Horbury: the hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, his folklore study ‘The Book of Were-Wolves’ and his semi-autobiographical novel, set in a thinly disguised version of Horbury, ‘Through Flood and Flame’. Cue thwarted love, dramatic disasters and the villainous Richard Grover, man-monkey and firebrand preacher.