The Tourist Podcast comes to visit
We were thrilled to welcome Vic Elizabeth Turnbull, and the award-winning writer and stand-up comedian Katie Mulgrew, to Elizabeth Gaskell's House a few months back and the result is the very first episode of the The Tourist Podcast. To quote Vic "Each episode,
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Busy Bees and the Great Exhibition
The roses on the pergola have started to flower and I think they are worth three photos all to themselves. On the other side of the lawn the open flowers of a dog rose provided a nectar paradise for bees. Elsewhere flowers
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Household Commotion – A New Exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
A new servants exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House opens this month, featuring a previously unseen letter discovered during the restoration work. Household Commotion’: Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘awful treasure’ of her servants, 1832-1865, is a brand-new exhibition at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, created
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Meeting Sir Joseph Paxton
The roses are looking good at present and there is one in particular I'd like to tell you about. But first some photos Louise Odier (Bourbon rose, 1851). Souvenir du Dr Jarmain (1865). Single paeony. Scotch briar and osmunda regalis-Royal fern. A
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A Visit to Chawton – From One Literary House to Another
“Our Chawton home how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced that when complete It will all other Houses beat, That ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise or rooms distended.” Jane Austen
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