Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• Henry Treece was a teacher at Barton Grammar School. He was also an accomplished author, and wrote the school song 'By Humber's Green Banks.'
• gary glitter lives in barton not a well known fact but he does on 47 castledyke road
• Ted Lewis, author of 'Jack's Return Home' - which was later made into the Michael Caine classic 'Get Carter'- lived on Priestgate until his death.
• the "real life" texas chain-saw massacre-ist robert elmer kleason resided down whitcross street before being busted. he's dead now thank christ but he a documentory about his life on channel 4 last year, thats right...barton was on the telly! also the actual film "the texas chainsaw massacre" was "allegadly" partly based on him.....!!!
• len out of emmerdale lives in barrow does that count?
• chad varah, i think he invented short hand or sumthing, and the guy that invented desperate dan for the dandy, also samuel wilderspin who was a famous victorian teacher who used to teach at the queen street school. and me.
• Lawrence of Arabia stayed at the Vicarage-a freind of the Vicars. Chad Varah founder of the Samaritans-born at the vicarage. Isaac Pitman founder of shorthand.

• Lawrence of Arabia visited the Moor Family at the vicarage a few times. The chap from haha Steeleye Span still lives there and the bloke who wrote Get Carter died of drink there. Private Gilbert Kirkin raised the flag over Baghdad in 1917 (more of an event really) Frederick Hopper the bicycle industrialist was a Bartonian.
• The guy who draws Desparate Dan lives/lived in Barton.
• Ken Harrison - Famous Cartoonist who draws Desparate Dan, lives on Fleetgate
• Craig Charles ( Robot Wars, Red Dwarf ) has stayed here for the peace and quietness???
• Samual Wilderspin who invented primary education. Chad Varah who started the Samaritans. Phillip Pape the famous artist

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