Groups Launch Event
Monday 26 February is to be a special date for the UK travel trade as women and their role in shaping our society sheds light on two closely linked visitor attractions. Writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s House and the nearby Pankhurst Centre, birthplace of
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#LancashireDay
As part of our Lancashire Day celebrations around 27 November we are running a prize draw in conjunction with The History of Lancashire in 70 Objects project. Visitors to the house from Wednesday 22 November until 29 November can enter a prize draw
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New Brown Signs
To misquote Elizabeth ‘we’ve got a brown sign Yes! we really have’. It's taken us three years, but we finally have brown signs from Upper Brook Street and the A6 directing people to Elizabeth Gaskell's House for open days, group tours, room
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Manchester is an UNESCO City of Literature
We were very excited to get the news this week that Manchester has been successful in a bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities network as a City of Literature. Manchester, which built the UK’s first public lending library and gave the
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New Creative Writing Group Leader
We are very excited to introduce a new leader for our monthly Plymouth Grove Writing Group; the writer and Anne Brontë expert, Nick Holland. Nick will be leading our monthly group which meets every fourth Thursday of the month (2-3pm) and is
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