Sweet Nancy is its pretty Lancashire name
A brave Sweet Nancy was in flower in the front bed this cold and wet Wednesday morning. A white, double, scented narcissus it took some finding in the bulb catalogues, because it is a name that has been given to a number
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A Tradition of Poetry
Read on for poems from the writers from the creative writing programme currently running at the House. For more of their work and to read about the background to these workshops, click here. Elizabeth Gaskell herself wrote poetry - one of her
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Amber sunlight streaming on the gold-grey Roman roofs
It was only a week before the recent warm and sunny Easter weekend that I looked out of the window at the blue sky and the sunshine and thought that at last spring was here. In previous weeks the wind had been
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Celebrating Primroses
April 19 is Primrose Day, and marks the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli, twice Prime Minister of England and also a prolific novelist who said that when he wanted to read a novel, he wrote one! The primrose was his
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Visiting Manchester Cathedral
To celebrate English Tourism Week 2019, Visit Manchester organised a culture swap across Manchester's heritage venues. We were lucky enough to visit the Grade 1 listed Manchester Cathedral where Amos Millington, one of the Cathedral volunteers, gave us a most interesting tour
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