It looks like a nuclear bunker and is a pretty good example of 70’s brutalist architecture. They want to knock it down and build a new one. How long before a Save Rotherham Library group starts fighting aginst the bulldozers? However ugly a buiIding might be, there are always people who love it for resons no one else understands.

Anyway, I had a lovely morning telling stories to incredibly polite yr 5 and 6 groups who were very complimentary about my artwork. One girl, from the wonderfully named Dalton Foljambe Primary School, looked at my sketch book and said that my sketches were as good as cartoons that you can download from the Internet – praise indeed! (The Foljambes seem to have been the big Rotherham family.)

By the way, the Library/Theatre cafe does a great BLT.

In the afternoon I was meant to have a school come to visit me, but with pouring rain, it was easier for me to visit them.

KS2 were in their own building that looked as if it were a 70’s csi lab. The entrance and staircase were amazingly narrow. There must be a squeeze and a fight to get out to the play ground every day!